Restore Our Alienated Rights
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Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR) was an anti-desegregation busing organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts by Louise Day Hicks in about 1974. The group's purpose was to fight off U.S. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's court order requiring the city of Boston to implement desegregation busing — an order intended to eliminate "de facto" racial segregation in its public schools.
To supporters, ROAR's purpose was its namesake; i.e., to protect the "vanishing rights" of white citizens. To its many opponents, however, ROAR was a symbol of mass racism coalesced into a single organization.
ROAR's resistance began to be broken apart when the organization was at its political height in 1975. The Progressive Labor Party organized a coordinated, violent assault against ROAR when ROAR attempted to disrupt PLP's 1975 May Day march with massive resistance. Assaults against ROAR by PLP continued for the rest of the summer. When schools reopened in September 1975, ROAR led successful demonstrations in Charlestown, Massachusetts that were reminiscent of the Little Rock Nine, but ROAR was noticeably unable to draw another mass rally, as it had that May and in the months before.
The end of 1975 thus saw ROAR's decline. Its activists were infamous for spotty racist vigilante actions against nonwhite citizens of Boston after 1975, but none of those ever approached the massive scale and influence of earlier that year. Slowly, even these vigilante actions were more and more successfully suppressed by anti-racists working in the area (and led largely by PLP), meaning that ROAR and its influence soon disintegrated.
The group's brief notability underscored a rising pattern of white working class backlash against the Civil Rights Movement, a pattern characterized by open hostility toward African Americans and an increasing popularity of the "New Right" that would culminate in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
ee also
*Desegregation busing
*Louise Day Hicks
*Little Rock Crisis
*Racism
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