busing (school integration)

Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African-American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.

The portrait of an extended African-American family in which the thirteen-year-old daughter strives to be grown-up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside of the family.

Profiles the lives of three families in the 1970s as they deal with urban racial issues and school desegregation in Boston over a ten-year period. Follows the McGoff, Twyman, and Diver families, which include a widowed Irish-American family, an African-American family, and a white liberal middle-class family. Describes each family's historical roots and the role of the public figures who shaped the course of the families' lives.