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229 - Boston Busing 1975

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Boston Globe's Anti-Busser March

Roar thought the Boston Globe was distorting news and influencing people against them. Thousands Southeast were there in moments with baseball bats, sawed off hockey sticks and rocks. They threw rocks at the PLP and their buses from an overpass. This led to fights for the next couple of days at Hyde Park High as white students went on the offense after a black student waved a PLP flag.

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