![]() ![]() Mandatory busing creates more problems for her children. She is very upset by the King assassination because her children are roving the streets with the crowds and she tries to keep them at home. A serious health problem keeps her from working for long. She has seven children that she is raising alone. Rachel Twymon is a single black mother living on welfare. He accepted a position with the mayor's office at half the salary to work on problems of social justice. This made him opt out of the establishment. ![]() However both he and his wife Joan felt a commitment to social action. Like others, he was re-evaluating his position due to the Vietnam War and the King assassination. ![]() Colin Diver, who was graduating from Law School, had already accepted a position with a prestigious Washington DC law firm. and the immediate effects of the assassination. ![]() The books begins with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It also shows first hand the lives of the people in the various Boston neighborhoods as well as giving a lot of history including that of the different Boston neighborhoods. The book shows how they coped with the problems created by mandatory busing and the effects it had on the students and the lives of the families. Anthony Lukas is a book that follows the lives of three families in Boston during the turbulent period of the 1970s. ![]()
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