Share Your Stories about Busing and School Desegregation, 9/13

THIS SATURDAY 9/13/14 - share your stories about busing and school desegregation in Boston with The Union of Minority Neighborhoods!

To commemorate the day, The Union of Minority Neighborhoods is setting up ‘listening stations’ across the city of Boston (one being at the Egleston Farmers Market this Saturday!) in order to record a wide variety of stories and to examine what happened then. They are also looking to

They will use residents' stories and memories from that time to see how these stories connect to our present and future as a city and the ongoing struggle for race and class equity, democratic access and excellence in our public institutions.

Come, share your oral histories! Help us change the way we understand what happened back then, and imagine how we can build a better public school system, and city, for our children today.

And while you're at Egleston Farmers Market, pick up some fresh local peaches, apples, meat, fish, eggs, veggies and other local delights!