Controversy over busing as a means to integrate public schools erupted in Boston when the 1974–1975 school year started. Opposition was especially high in white ethnic neighborhoods such as South Boston. Residents there resented liberal judges from the suburbs assigning them the burden of integration. Clashes between blacks and whites in Boston, such as this one in February 1975 outside Boston’s Hyde Park High School, prompted authorities to dispatch police to protect black students. AP/Wide World.