This review essay critically evaluates Susan Eaton\u27s The Other Boston Busing Story, an interview-based study of African American alumni from Boston\u27s METCO voluntary city-to-suburb school desegregation program in the 1970s through the 1990s. The reviewers praise Eaton\u27s richly-textured representations of METCO alumni experiences, but they question whether the evidence supports her major policy claim that nearly all alumni would repeat the program if given the opportunity. Based on the reviewers\u27 parallel study of Hartford\u27s Project Concern alumni, the essay calls attention to forced choices faced by many African Americans in these city-suburban programs, and discusses the broader implications for contemporary policy debate on school desegregation and the vouchers movement
