I'm glad you brought up Boston. We could also talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. and SCLC in Chicago, which I think was as difficult as any place in the South.. . . People in Boston didn't want kids of the ghetto getting bused into their kids school . . .
Is it possible that Nixon adopted the southern strategy in 1968 to punish blacks for voting against him in 1960?
My big answer's going to be that if Civil Rights had started just a little bit earlier post-WWII, then maybe we're trying medium-scale experiments on desegregating between urban and suburban schools, and on affirmative action, during the 1960s. That is, during a time of economic expansion. Much easier this way.. . . in Boston . . .