The evening’s moderator is Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video, GBH News.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Suffolk University's Modern Theatre
525 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111
Admission is FREE. Registration is required.
This event is open to the public.
Register here to attend via Zoom:
For questions and registration assistance, please email boxoffice@suffolk.edu .
Never Cried: Boston’s Busing Legacy
Two sisters confront their trauma from Boston's busing crisis in a powerful new GBH documentary produced by GBH News’ Emily Judem and Stephanie Leydon.
In September 1974, just two days after her 14th birthday, Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. Hampton and her older sister, Linda Stark, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other.
The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton.
METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses children of color from Boston’s city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more, vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.
WAITLIST: If this event is sold out, you may add your name to the waitlist by checking in at the Modern Theatre box office when the lobby and box office open.
ARRIVAL: The Modern Theatre lobby and box office will open at 5:00pm on November 7th, one hour before the event's start time.
All unclaimed tickets are released to the waitlist ten minutes before each event's scheduled start time. Please arrive at least fifteen minutes before your event's start time and check in at the box office to avoid losing your tickets to the waitlist.
RUNNING LATE? Late seating will be permitted during appropriate breaks in the performance, at the Front of House Manager’s discretion. Please arrive on time, no less than 15 minutes before the event’s start time.
ACCESSIBILITY: We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodation for all events. Please email boxoffice@suffolk.edu to make a reasonable accommodation request.
- The Modern Theatre is wheelchair and mobility aid accessible.
- ADA and companion seating is available for all events.
- The Modern Theatre has an ADA accessible and gender neutral restroom.
CONTACT US: Please email boxoffice@suffolk.edu if you have any questions or need assistance reserving tickets.