Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. (June 20, 1920 – September 16, 1999) was a

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of the

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notable for issuing the 1974 order in '' Morgan v. Hennigan'' which mandated that Boston schools be desegregated by means of busing.

Education and career

Born in

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, Garrity received an

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degree from

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in 1941, and was then a Sergeant in the

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