Retiree Joe Dotoli has authored a book, A Piece of Chalk, about the desegregation struggle in Boston as seen through his eyes. From the book’s covers:
An eyewitness account from the people inside America’s oldest public high school during Boston’s unforgettable era of school desegregation and forced busing. A true story of racial and economic disparity set in America’s oldest public high school in the 1970s is still shockingly relevant today…