Desegregating Boston Schools: Reports from the 1970s

About the Records

About the Citywide Coordinating Council (CCC) Records

The Citywide Coordinating Council (CCC) records contain documents created by the CCC as an independent body overseeing the racial desegregation of Boston Public Schools (BPS) from 1975-1978. Tasked with monitoring the court-ordered desegregation plan, the CCC initially comprised forty-two members representing a variety of racial groups and neighborhoods, as well as educational, business, labor, religious, and community leaders. The CCC oversaw the desegregation of faculty and students in BPS, held public hearings, trained school monitors, and inspected school and transportation facilities. As the court-ordered desegregation plan wound down, the CCC was replaced by the Department of Implementation in 1977 and formally dissolved in 1978.

The CCC records on Desegregating Boston Schools: Reports from the 1970s contain monitor reports from L Street Annex, Hyde Park High School, and Charlestown High School from the spring semester of 1976. These monitor reports document student conflicts and violence at these schools, the disciplinary actions taken by administrators, anti-busing protests by adults and students outside the schools, the state of school facilities, and the general atmosphere of these schools during a time of high tension. These records were digitized by the Burns Library at Boston College.

Preferred Citation: [Name of School] monitor reports, Citywide Coordinating Council records, MS.1990.031, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, [url].

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