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Ah yes, from the Boston folk who brought you moral outrage over the South!

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/iml04/soc/ush/civil/boston/index.html

...On June 21, 1974, Massachusetts Federal Court Judge Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee “intentionally brought about and maintained racial segregation.” His ruling was based on school committee records that documented ongoing resistance to desegregating schools when the school committee alone had the power to decide who went to any given school. In the two years leading up to the ruling, protests and demonstrations revealed white resistance and racial tension in a city that had long considered race a southern issue.

Garrity ordered the desegregation of the schools by the following September. His ruling meant that thousands of white students would be bused to schools in black communities, and black students would be bused to white schools, some in hostile communities such as South Boston and Charlestown.

When school began in September 1974, most schools quietly complied with the new plan. But in South Boston, buses carrying black children were greeted by angry, violent mobs that threw rocks through the windows. Nine young black students were injured. Roxbury community center leader Ellen Jackson remembers, “The kids were crying. They had glass in their hair. They were scared... they wanted to go home.

Black parents organized escorts to see their children to school safely. The following year, the busing plan was revised. But the violence against Boston’s black community continued, particularly in Charlestown and South Boston. Many white families boycotted the schools.

Boston’s busing plan continued indefinitely. Eventually, the violence subsided as some white families complied, while others enrolled their children in private schools or moved out of the city altogether into predominantly white suburbs...