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Ten years after the busing protests in South Boston, a former teacher at South Boston High recalls the events while sitting on the steps of the school. She kept a journal throughout the series of events and went on to publish "Southie Won't Go" about…

Protests and riots broke out in front of South Boston High School during busing desegregation in the 1970s. South Boston residents were incensed at the concept of primarily white South Boston students going to primarily black neighborhood schools and…