Who was involved in the boston busing

Based on your reading in the webtext, select and respond to one of the following thesis statements. Your response should be two to three paragraphs long, include your position on the issue, and cite at least three specific pieces of historical evidence:

In the long run, busing helped Boston because it desegregated the school system, providing equal educational opportunity for minority students, and set the stage for racial healing and an improved racial climate in the twenty-first century.

OR
In the long run, busing hurt Boston because it led to violent racial strife, contributed to white flight, and damaged the quality of the public school system.

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Boston, Busing, and Backlash
THE STRUGGLE FOR VOTING RIGHTS, WHICH WE LOOKED AT IN THEME 3, LEARNING BLOCK 3, WAS A STRUGGLE AGAINST DE JURE SEGREGATION* THAT EXISTED IN JUST ONE PART OF THE COUNTRY: THE STATES OF THE OLD SOUTH. BUT THE PROBLEM OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION* WAS ONE THAT EXISTED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND ITS EFFECTS WERE PERHAPS SEEN MOST CLEARLY IN THE NATION'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

A SERIES OF SUPREME COURT CASES IN THE EARLY 1960S MADE IT CLEAR THAT DE FACTO SCHOOL SEGREGATION WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THAT SEGREGATED SCHOOLS WOULD BE INTEGRATED BY COURT ORDER IF NECESSARY. BEGINNING IN THE EARLY 1970S, THE COURT BEGAN REQUIRING SCHOOL BUSING* PLANS, WHICH WOULD SEND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS TO LARGELY WHITE SCHOOLS AND SEND WHITE STUDENTS TO LARGELY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCHOOLS, AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING GREATER RACIAL BALANCE.