Dorchester Reporter: First-time author delves into Boston’s racial divide

Dorchester Reporter
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
August 16, 2018

\”First-time author delves into Boston’s racial divide\”

Michael Patrick Murphy knows that history is cyclical. The South Shore native spent the formative part of his adolescence in South Boston and Dorchester, attending Boston College High School and UMass Boston. At that time, running from the late ‘80s through the early ‘90s, racial tension was at a high level. Although the desegregation of the city’s public schools had been happening since the mid-1970s, it was just starting to take place at private and parochial schools, which at that point were almost exclusively white…   Read Full Article