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Module 6 Short Responses – Question 1 Which source will you analyze using active reading strategies? Include the name of the article, the author, the publication, the date, and where you found it.
Read your chosen source using the active reading strategies you learned on the previous
page. Then, summarize the overall meaning and content of the reading. Write your summary below. Your summary should be at least one paragraph long.
The source I chose was:
Busing & beyond: School desegregation in Boston. Busing & Beyond: School Desegregation in Boston | DPLA. (n.d.). https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/busing-beyond-school-
desegregation-in-boston
This article goes into depth about the history of the busing system during segregation in Boston schools. It talks about one of the students who had to walk past many different schools just to get to her black only school. It also talks about the many court cases that occurred during The time as well as what they were about and what was the final conclusion of each court case. Module 6 Short Responses – Question 2 What events or historical forces contributed to the Boston busing crisis of the mid-
1970s? Name at least three, and briefly explain why you think each one was a contributory cause of the Boston busing crisis.
1. The Massachusetts legislator passed the racial imbalance act in 1965 in response to a federal investigation of possible segregation in the Boston public schools. This act out outlawed segregation in the schools as well as restrict funding if they didn’t disaggregate.
2. right now the African-American community protested the quality of public schools in black neighborhoods in the early 1960s. The community shed light on the issues of the environment of schools at the time which opened investigations on the issue.
3. The racial imbalance act was a period in which the Boston school system was under court controlled to desegregate. The main goal of this act was to get rid of the racial imbalance in the Boston school system.
Module 6 Short Responses – Question 3 Name three specific consequences of the Boston
busing crisis.
1. Attendance in the Boston, Public schools immensely dropped because white people started to take their children out of the public schools since African-Americans started attending.
White started enrolling their kids into private schools. 2. The percentage of college graduates from Boston public schools dropped to 10% in 1970.
3. There was a possible phenomenon at the time called white flight, which was when white residents would move out of mixed race, urban areas to relocate to largely white suburbs.
Module 6 Short Responses – Question 4 Describe one cause of the event you have chosen for your historical analysis (keeping in mind that there are many), and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion. Describe one consequence of the event, and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion.
One major event I have chosen from my historical analysis, was the busing system in Boston public schools during the time of segregation. This had many positive impacts as well as negative impacts. One consequence of this event was that Black people felt unsafe going to public schools. There were many times where they would have to duck for safety on the bus ride to school, and they feared for their life.
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