Although the two chapters on the Black-led struggle for school desegregation in the 1960s are excellent, the same cannot be said for Vrabel’s chapter on the anti-busing movement. ... Rather than uniting Boston’s working class, the anti-busing movement intensified white racism..…

Yet abortion rates were five times higher in the black community than Asians, four times higher than whites, and nearly twice as high as Hispanics. . Voting rights and anti-poverty activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, denounced abortion as black genocide. ..…

Over the 20 years, Republicans have become more pro-life and Democrats have trended more pro-choice. ..…

But the involvement of many mostly closeted gays and lesbians in the civil rights, women’s, and anti-Vietnam War movements shaped a new generation of budding radicals chafing at their own oppression. Influenced by the Black Power militants who had made slogans like “Black is beautiful”..…

Mitchell’s—and the union local’s—support for Black demands suggests that his campaign for union office depended in part on the support of the Afro-American Employees Committee. ... It also contained an anti-gay epithet. Nevertheless, the article marked the first timeThe..…