I had rocks and racial slurs thrown at my bus simply for attending school while black.
Kim Janey: “I had rocks and racial slurs thrown at my bus simply for attending school while black.”
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Janey reflects on her childhood experiences with school desegregation and the challenges she faced as a black student in Boston.
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