Screening of acclaimed documentary Never Cried: Boston's Busing Legacy
When:
Monday, Nov 17, 2025 6:00p -
7:30p
Monday, Nov 17, 2025 6:00p -
7:30p
Where:
Shaw-Roxbury Branch Boston Public Library
149 Dudley Street
Boston, MA 02119
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
History
Event website:
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68ef9e97fbf38a28001ee370
Register Here
https://bpl.libcal.com/event/15334441
In September 1974 – two days after her 14th birthday – Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. She and her older sister, Linda Starks-Walker, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black Roxbury neighborhood into the predominantly white, working-class South Boston neighborhood. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other. ‘Never Cried’: Boston’s Busing Legacy - a short documentary from GBH News - examines how this trauma has been passed to younger generations, and what this means for the future of a city that, like Leola and Linda, is still healing 50 years after the busing crisis.
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