1. Boston and Race

2. Do you think Boston is a racist city? Ted Landsmark was stabbed with an American flag during a desegregation protest in 1977

3. “It seems like war is being declared on black people in Boston, and we are helpless victims.”- Reverend Taylor of Ebenezer Baptist Church “People of color are not safe in Boston; people of color from other parts of the nation should stay away from Boston; people of color must unite against the climate of racism in the city; people of color in Boston should ask for federal protection because the city has failed to protest them.”- State Senator William Owens

4. “When I hear the name Celtics, I see this American flag. I see Elvis Presley. I see mom and apple pie. I see the bus with black children being overturned during the whole busing thing.”- Spike Lee

5. "Boston?” "There's different kinds of prejudice in the North than there is in the South, but it exists. It may not be 'I think I'm better than you,' but it might be 'I don't want to live next door to you.'" -Chris Matthews

6. The Boston Public Schools is the oldest public school system in the United States. Boston Latin (1635) was the first public high school and The Mather School (l939) is the oldest free public school. Before 1974, Boston was known as the home of abolitionists and reformers. It had the reputation of being the most educated city with the oldest university and the most college students per square mile. It was called 'The Athens of America." This nickname evoked enlightened thinking.

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10. Boston and Sports The Bad

11. Tom Yawkey

12. What Could Have Been…

13. The Boston Red Sox were the last major league baseball team to integrate their roster. In 1959 -- 12 years after Jackie Robinson broke the league's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers -- the Red Sox brought utility infielder Pumpsie Green up from the minors.

14. Boston Sports The Good

15. Boston Celtics The man who officially integrated professional basketball when he was drafted by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in April of 1950, Chuck Cooper

16. In 1968, Sports Illustrated honored Bill Russell as "Sportsman of the Year," after he led the Celtics to a tenth NBA championship as the team's player-coach.

17. 1958: first black hockey player in NHL played for the Bruins Willie O'Ree,