Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Forced busing was a remedy prescribed by Judge Arthur Garrity for perceived racial inequities in Boston public schools in the late 1960s. He ordered schoolchildren to be transported by school bus to schools in different neighborhoods, in order to eliminate the segregation that had come about. The conflict primarily afffected the Irish-Catholic neighborhoods of South Boston and Dorchester. External Link http://videoindex.pbs.org/program/all_chapters.jsp?item_id=5853 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.