Oral history interview with John Nucci (OH-059, audio recording and transcript)

Oral history interview with John Nucci (OH-059, audio recording and transcript)

2006

In this interview, former Boston School Committee president and Boston city councilor John Nucci reflects on the 1974 Garrity decision, which required some students to be bused between Boston neighborhoods with the intention of creating racial balance in the public schools. He discusses the background of the decision and its impact on the city; why he decided to run for the Boston School Committee; the 1985 court decision to disengage the schools from the federal court and give control back to the school committee; and how race relations have improved in Boston. He concludes by discussing the current state of education in the Boston Public Schools.

Moakley Oral History Project

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Sound recording

Oral histories

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English

Busing for school integration

Boston (Mass.)--School Committee

Morgan v. Hennigan (379 F. Supp. 410)

Education--Massachusetts

OH-059

Tsismenakis, Elias

Nucci, John

31:09:00