After a short break digitizing materials related to the Cocoanut Grove fire, I am not back to digitizing materials on the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools. I started scanning yearbooks from the Hyde Park High School records (one of the schools where forced busing occurred) between 1973 and 1980. The reasoning behind this is simple: we are trying to show the change in the racial composition of the student body before busing and a few years after the implementation of busing.
The 1975 yearbook is one that has stood out the most so far. The 1974-1975 school year marked the beginning of forced busing in city’s public schools. There are two photographs in this yearbook that show police presence around the students. I am not sure if these were used already in the Omeka site for the digitization class, but these would make for a great addition for someone’s exhibit.
I just finished scanning the 1976 yearbook this past week, and I am now moving on to digitizing some images from the Mayor Kevin H. White records. I have to admit that I enjoy working with audiovisual materials over textual materials, so I am really looking forward to working on this. At the moment I am going through some of the negatives that another intern recently processed and looking for interesting folders for scanning. I noticed that there is a folder of Mayor Kevin H. White posing for photographs with the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Although I have not yet looked at the negatives in that folder, I am optimistic that it is definitely worth scanning! More updates on this to come!
Archives in Turn: Interns in Archives 
It’s really interesting how the composition of a school can change over time. When I was looking at Trotter’s graduation exercises from Hyde Park, it was a predominately white school. At this point in time, the area is predominantly people of color. It’d be really interesting to find out how the racial makeup changed because of busing and it’s so cool how you get to look at these changes!
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