Film & Answer Questions

You will need to watch a film ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2-TT_Bk1M ) After viewing the film, respond to the following 10

questions. The answer is NOT an essay, just answer them by numbers.
1. Why weren’t some Northern schools integrated in the 1970s?
2. How do you explain the resistance to school integration?
3. What underlying challenges made school integration hard to achieve in Boston?
4. What can a government do to guarantee equal opportunities for all its citizens?
5. Batson described the situation in the Boston Public Schools as de facto segregation. What is the difference between de facto

segregation and legally sanctioned segregation?
6. How did Batson account for the situation in Boston?
7. In Boston, what was the difference between integration and desegregation?
8. Why did Hicks and others object to Batson’s description of the schools as segregated?
9. Why do you think Batson insisted that the schools needed to be desegregated? Why did she believe it wasn’t enough to fix schools in

their local communities?
10. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton argued there was a public interest in sustaining integrated schools. In your view, is there an

educational value to school integration?