The Boston School Desegregation and Busing Initiative (BSDBI) is pleased to be a joint partner with the Talented and Gifted Association (TAG Association) to develop the Boston School Desegregation Mobile Bus Museum. TAG Director Ilyitch Nahiely Tabora and TAG Board members Jose Lopez and Tomas Gonzalez have been great partners.

We bought a school bus. And its purpose is to provide a learning space for students of all ages about this important set of events that took place in Boston that are part of the Civil Rights Movement history. We would argue that this was the most important event in Boston's history since World War II and it still shapes Boston Public School policies and Boston's reputation as a city.

The museum will be outfitted with photos, narratives, time lines, documents, and videos of events. We envision Boston teachers being able to call and request the Bus Museum visit their school and students go out of their school and into the bus as a mini-field trip and discuss what happened and lessons from that.  

This is very much a Boston story.  But since a key leader of education equity and desegregation in Boston, Ruth Batson, also organized METCO, this history connects also to that program that buses 3300 students of color from Boston to schools in 33 suburbs each year also.

We hope the Boston School Desegregation Mobile Bus Museum will open during 2026.