They were hanging these big, long dolls from poles, and then lighting them on fire. “Some were screaming very legitimate slogans about not having a vote, but then other people were screaming racist slogans, and were burning the main architects of busing in effigies. “We got sort of buffeted along for about 10 blocks,” Lehane says. One hot evening, driving home to their neighbourhood in nearby Dorchester, Lehane’s father took a wrong turn into the middle of a protest. Furious protesters from the largely Irish-American enclave of Southie took to the streets. After more than two years of deliberation, Judge W Arthur Garrity jnr had ordered the immediate desegregation of Boston’s public schools by busing students to different districts. Dennis Lehane’s childhood ended in the summer of 1974.
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