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Boston busing crisis, 1974
How Judge W Arthur Garrity Jr's enforced busing policy, attempting to desegregate schooling, came up against its greatest challenge in South Boston.
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Fri 18 Oct 1974
21:00
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The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door of 1963
The 25th anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Alabama.
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Gerald Ford, the new man in the White House, 1974
New revelations about President Gerald Ford's past, are discussed by the press.
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- Fri 18 Oct 1974 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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