macarthur foundation, wyncote foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting. or america reframed provided by open society foundations, acton family giving, park foundation, the national endowment for the arts, and the reva and david logan foundation. additional funding for this episode was provided by phi lambda charitable trust. ♪ it was a hot, humid day in the first week of august in 1975 in this small, cramped hearing room in the boston public schools headquarter, where there were hundreds of people waiting to testify in front of the school committee on the second phase of the boston busing plan, where they would bus elementary school students. i was there with ts from the newly formed chinese parents association. they were there to plead their case. we organized all summer long. the meetin went from 20 parents to sometime 200. some of the parents were parents of my own students, and some of them were my students in my saturday english classes. and there are others who are my mother's friends from the garment factory. so all summer long, they organized. they

macarthur foundation, wyncote foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting. eframed provided by open society foundations, acton family ging, park foundation, the tional endowment for the arts, and the reva and david gan fountion. ♪ (upbeat music) - when i looked at the archival, it was always really hard to watch that because that's how i remember my dad. - everyone that i've gh in love is at risk of being attacked or killed. (upbeat music) - our country is still in this place where we have this conversation about black versus white versus latino versus asi versus indigenous. we forget that so many of these communities are intermixed. - [man] and here's lonnie riding the pine, collecting splinters again. - pkew. - it's heavy, dad! (people laugh) (toddler babbles) - these are also american stories. these are also human stories and they're all relatable in my eyes. - [dispatcher] there's only one shooter, gunshot wound to the head. he is down. - [man] 311 to all units. - i felt an affinity for the story. - there is no protol for these things. i don't know what t