I suspected you might know about the Boston bussing when I chose this example, and glad to hear of your on the ground experience. I use the term “forced integration” rather than just bussing as a matter of perspective—though not mine. Bussing should be the normal term, but the resistance to ‘court ordered bussing’ reflects more the whole ‘massive resistance’ movement organized by Senator Byrd and by white supremacists throughout the 15 state region as a whole. The term anti-bussing diminishes the real reason the bussing was happening in the first place, as a direct connection to the 1954 Brown decision. Many courts in Massachusetts (among other states) got involved in grinding down that decision and lessening it impact, though not completely nullifying it.
But we see such term shifting and label diminishing of the problem as a way to dampen the white right and centrist wing response. The media doesn’t want to offend its main audience by sound accusatory, even though they were the majority ones fighting on the streets, in town halls, and in the courts to stop it. I haven’t studied this Boston incident enough, but have only seen so far the ROAR movement and whites storming the school and throwing rocks and such in angry organized protests. It appeared to me that the black Americans didn’t have a ‘balance’ in that regard, coming out on the streets in anger to throw rocks. The violence they were involved in seemed from the incidents I read to be one self-defense. You might know more from your recollections.
Thanks as always for sharing your insights and viewpoints.