a boycott, I was surprised to see any white students in school until I learned that a walkout of white students at ., when the parents, now gathering on the sidewalk, planned to walk in to protest the presence of steel combs in the school. Walkers (or white students) were permitted to leave by the side doors, if they preferred, so as not to be identified and, perhaps, intimidated by the now divided community. In South Boston families once friends are now enemies, since half support the antibusing boycott and the other half feel they have to educate their children.​