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

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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Composer
Roger Suen (music by)
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Updated Sep 11, 2023

Release date
Sep 11, 2023 (United States)

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39 cast members
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Henry Allen
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Thomas Atkins
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Ruth M. Batson
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Tomika Brown
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John Chancellor
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Walter Cronkite
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Robert di Grazia
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Phyllis Ellison
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Louise Day Hicks
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John F. Kennedy
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Martin Luther King
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Jonathan Kozol
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Frank Power
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George Wallace
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Kevin White
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