John F. Stack’s scientific contributions

... A common theme running through these works is that poor white and Black families were equally afflicted by a plan that, according to Lupo, amounted to little more than shuffling children "from one lousy school to another, by telling oppressed whites and oppressed blacks that they must mingle for some greater social good." 4 More recent strands in the historiography have shifted the focus away from white reactions to desegregation and examined the antiracist activism of African American and Latinx residents in the decades leading up to the court order. As analyses by Jeanne F. Theoharis, Zebulon Vance Miletsky, and Tatiana M. F. Cruz have shown, desegregation did not come to the BPS through the autocratic actions of a lone federal judge. ...

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Making Desegregation Work: Citizen Participation and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Boston Public Schools, 1974–85