American Experience The Busing Battleground (Season 35, Episode 7)
TV Episode | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

The Busing Battleground (Season 35, Episode 7)

TV Episode | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.

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39 cast members

Name	Known for
Henry Allen Self - teacher Self - teacher See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Thomas Atkins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Ruth M. Batson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Tomika Brown Self (as Tomiko Brown-Nagin) Self (as Tomiko Brown-Nagin) See fewer	Civil: Ben Crump (2022)
Joe Burnieika Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
John Chancellor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Walter Cronkite Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Liberty's Kids (2002)
Edward Crowder Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Matthew Delmont Self Self See fewer	The Real Red Tails (2024)
Robert di Grazia Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Connie Egan Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Phyllis Ellison Self (as Phyllis Ellison-Feaster) Self (as Phyllis Ellison-Feaster) See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Sandie Fenton Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Moe Gillen Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Charles Glenn Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Louise Day Hicks Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Al Holland Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Ira Jackson Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Hubie Jones Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Bill Joy Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Martin Luther King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Writers (2007)
Jonathan Kozol Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
Ted Landsmark Self Self See fewer	Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning (2023)
Matthew Patrick Macdonald Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Ione Malloy Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Lisa McGoff-Collins Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Zebulon Miletsky Self Self See fewer	13th (2016)
Bob Monohan Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Lyda Peters Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Frank Power Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Leon Rock Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Bryant Rollins Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Alan Rose Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Farah Stockman Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Eric van Loon Self Self See fewer	Divide in Concord (2014)
Jim Vrabel Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1988)
George Wallace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Kevin White Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer