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Finding
a Political Voice
Spurred by catalysts
such as the passage of the Racial Imbalance Act, Boston's African
American community began to develop a coherent and audible political
voice in the 1960s and 1970s. Education became an especially powerful
rallying point, particularly as Boston entered into court-ordered
desegregation, a protracted and ugly struggle beginning in 1974.
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