Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced about how busing came to be.
Ira Jackson, chief of staff to Boston Mayor Kevin White, said he was in South Boston on Sept. 12, 1974, as enforcement began of U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.’s order to forcibly end de-facto segregation in the capital’s public schools.
