School Busing Controversy over busing as a means to integrate public schools erupted in Boston during the 1974–1975 school year. Residents in white neighborhoods particularly opposed busing; they resented liberal, suburban judges assigning them the burden of integration. Clashes between blacks and whites in South Boston, and nearby communities, such as this one in February 1975 outside Boston’s Hyde Park High School, prompted authorities to dispatch police to protect black students. AP Photo/DPG.