From a series of audio recordings with members of Boston's Black community about the busing crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the busing crisis in Boston of the mid-1970s, Holland was headmaster of the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester and was the first African American administrator at South Boston High School. Discussion of Holland's work in the Boston school system, first as a consultant (1975), and then his work as an administrator at South Boston High School (1975-76) working on problems in desegregation when the school was in receivership; violence in South Boston High and fighting back against the assaults; Jeremiah Burke School.
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