Historians R Us

This blog is the property of the AP US History class at Pope John XXIII High School in Everett, MA, USA. Here students explore current events in America, while seeking to understand the historical roots of those events. At the same time, students are able to carry on classroom discussions in the cyber world.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Consistent Violence on the Dorchester Bus

On the bus going from Dorchester to Boston, there has always been agression and violence. Just last week, a teen was shot on the bus over matters of tripping another man. A news team interviewed students traveling that route and they talked to a young girl that had to make the commute in order to get to the academy. She says that she always sits near an exit so she can run out if something bad happens. She keeps her head down if there is trouble because eye contact can be interpreted to the agressive and unusual as an offensive thing to do.
This can be compared to the violence on the buses during the civil rights movements. Riots occurred because the blacks began to refuse to sit in the back of the bus, after Rosa Parks was arrested because of doing the same.

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