Racial Imbalance Court Case

BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 17: Boston School Committee Chairman John J. Kerrigan, right, talks to reporters, after appearing before Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., not pictured, for a hearing to determine whether or not the School Committee discriminated against black students by deliberately segregating Boston public schools, at the Federal Building in Boston on Dec. 17, 1974. Garrity ordered Kerrigan and other School Committee members Paul Ellison and John J. McDonough, not pictured, to appear in court after they voted against a desegregation plan. (Photo by Tom Landers/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)