Remarkable documentary about Boston's school busing crisis in the 1970s.
The absolute gut punch comes at the end, where they interview Ted Landsmark, the African-American lawyer assaulted at City Hall Plaza in the famous "The Soiling of Old Glory" photo.
I was still a preschooler during the worst of it, but as a kid who grew up in Mass., I distinctly remember seeing the evening news covering the riots in Southie and Charlestown and hearing adults talk about it.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/busing-battleground/
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