Don't forget Lawrence Tribe (yes, the law professor from Harvard) who signed the petition to keep the minority school out of Cambridge (which incidentally is in Middlesex County, not Suffolk). When called on it, his "defense" was, "Well, I signed it, but I didn't read it."
I’ve been telling this for years when it would come up in conversation...lived many years in the urban NorthEast (including Bahstin), intentionally moved to a 99.99% non-white country and now decades in the “deep south”...the most racist place we ever lived was, indeed, Boston.