Boston Desegregation, Part II: Busing the Powerless.

Comments on issues related to desegregation of Boston, Massachusetts. Attempt of the cities with a majority of African American population to reduce discrimination in admission to schools; Significance of changes in intellectual fashions of individual thinking to the desegregation issue; Problems caused to democracy by the racial violence; Confusion regarding the segregation during the tenure of former U.S. President Richard Nixon; Relationship of rise of African Americans in the U.S. politics with proposals for metropolitan government; Necessity for minorities to join with Whites as part of egalitarian and majoritarian coalition that do not exist.