09.15.2019 - By Diane Wong
Eyes on the Prize Keys to the Kingdom featuring Jean McGuire, See this episode to contemplate Boston's racial history. This is not ancient history. This is the history of exactly where we are today. Watch this video and remember. The episode shows actual footage of the Boston clash between Roxbury black people and South Boston White people as they struggled over who would go to their neighborhood schools. The black struggle was for equal educational opportunity, the white stuggle was for continued white supremacy. Here we talked with Jean McGuire a black woman who was deeply involved in education and opportunity for black youngsters in Boston. Dr McGuire is featured in this episode of Eyes on the Prize.