Professor Julie de Chantal recently published a chapter in the collection Mothers in Public and Political Life. “Before Boston’s Busing Crisis: Operation Exodus, Grassroots Organizing, and Motherhood, 1965-1967” discusses the impact of Boston Black mothers’ community organizing by examining how sociopolitical issues within the city, combined with the inability of mainstream civil rights organizations to effect change, lead to the creation of a community-run bussing campaign to gain access to educational resources for their children.