Former Mayor Kevin White reflects on the impact of busing on Boston’s reputation.

Two days before the 20th anniversary of Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s ruling, White tells the Boston Globe, “We have never regained that sense of moral superiority with the same intensity that we had before busing. We had been seen as a city of culture, of contained passion. But there was something that never quite came back, that feeling that Boston was just a little bit better. We took a tumble.”