Rep. Royal Bolling files a bill that eventually becomes the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Law.

The bill calls for the state to address segregation in its public schools. The original bill does not pass, nor does it define what constitutes such imbalance (later when a school’s enrollment is made up of more than 50% of minority students). But it prompts the state to appoint a commission to study the issue and a subsequent bill is adopted in 1965.*