The Boston Busing Crisis: Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, a federal judge ordered Boston to integrate its public school system through busing, a decision the Boston Globe recently called “the biggest broken promise in the city’s modern history.” In this forum, Trinity parishioner and Globe reporter Adrian Walker facilitates a discussion reflecting on the lasting legacy of the busing crisis, featuring the following panel participants: The Rev. Morgan Allen, Rector of Trinity Church; Elizabeth Cook, Trinity parishioner and former member of Mayor Kevin White’s administration; Charmane Higgins, Executive Director of Trinity Boston Connects; The Rev. Tom Kennedy, former Assisting Priest of Trinity Church, who preached this sermon: “A Letter to a Church in a Troubled City,” 50 years ago this week.