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White was never totally comfortable with busing, however, and called Garrity's plan "too severe."

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White was never totally comfortable with busing, however, and called Garrity's plan "too severe."

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Garrity's efforts to desegregate the Boston Public Schools failed.

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The book makes clear that Garrity's hand was forced by the Boston School Committee, which spent a decade flatly refusing to end the city's racially segregated school system.

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Whatever share of the white exodus could be directly attributed to Garrity's rulings, there could be little doubt that the goal of effective school desegregation had been substantially undercut by the steady drain of white students.

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Garrity's chosen instrument was mandated busing -- 'forced busing' in the idiom of the day.

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Lukas concludes that Garrity's efforts to integrate the Boston schools did not work, and perhaps could not have worked:

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Whatever share of the white exodus could be directly attributed to Garrity's rulings, there could be little doubt that the goal of effective school desegregation had been substantially undercut by the steady drain of white students.

D. R. Tucker: No Middle Ground D. R. Tucker 2012

Despite Garrity's best efforts to shake ash out of his nether regions, the boys eventually have to supplement the ashes with red velvet cake mix.

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Whatever share of the white exodus could be directly attributed to Garrity's rulings, there could be little doubt that the goal of effective school desegregation had been substantially undercut by the steady drain of white students.

D. R. Tucker: No Middle Ground D. R. Tucker 2012