Chinese parents begin a boycott of the Boston Public Schools.

(to 9/10) The three-day boycott by some 90% of the 1,000 Chinese students in the system is held to protest the reassignment of students from schools in Chinatown to the Harvard-Kent School in Charlestown as part of the Phase II desegregation plan. The boycott ends when the Boston School Department agrees to most of the demands previously made by parents. Michael Liu subsequently calls it “The first time that [Chinatown] neighborhood activists had succeeded in achieving their goals . . . The neighborhood’s working people had challenged institutional dictates and structures and won.”