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White Flight Shapes Boston Desegregation Portrait 1975
The Boston school desegregation era shows a steep decline in white enrollment from 93,647 in 1973 to 36,243 in 1974 and 44,957 in 1973, with even lower figures in later years. Private academies and parochial schools absorb white students as public schools shift to a non white majority amid hostility in South Boston, Hyde Park, Roxbury, and Mattapan.
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W. Arthur Garrity Jr
Boston School Committee
South Boston
Hyde Park
Roxbury
Mattapan
South Boston High School
Dorchester
East Boston