Both had been hired by the school system as transitional aides to implement a federal court order desegregating Boston’s schools by means of busing.
That particular day, there was nothing thrown at buses, but as time went on they started breaking windows.”ĭrummer, a black woman from Roxbury, quickly befriended Mary Linehan, a white woman from South Boston.
They were yelling profanity, things like ‘n-, go home,’ holding bananas up at the buses. “As we drove up to the school, we were greeted by thousands of people in the streets. “At no point did I expect what I experienced the first day of school,” Drummer recalled.
This daily journey, though just a few miles, would become a symbol in the movement to desegregate Boston’s schools. On a September morning in 1974, Imogene Drummer shepherded a handful of nervous black students from Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood onto a bus for their first day at what was-until then-the all-white South Boston High School.
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