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W. Arthur Garrity Jr. (Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.) was born on 20 June, 1920 in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American judge (1920–1999). Discover W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.
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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 20 June 1920
Birthday 20 June
Birthplace Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 16 September, 1999
Died Place Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1920

Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. (June 20, 1920 – September 16, 1999) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts notable for issuing the 1974 order in Morgan v. Hennigan which mandated that Boston schools be desegregated by means of busing.

1941

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Garrity received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from College of the Holy Cross in 1941, and was then a Sergeant in the United States Army during World War II, from 1943-45.

1946

He received a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1946, and served as a law clerk to Francis Ford of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1947.

1947

Garrity entered private practice in Boston and Worcester from 1947 to 1948.

1948

He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1948 to 1950, lecturing in federal jurisdiction and procedure at Boston College Law School from 1950 to 1951.

1951

He was in private practice in Boston from 1951 to 1961.

1961

He was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1961 to 1966.

1966

Garrity was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on May 23, 1966, to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to a new seat authorized by 75 Stat.

80. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 1966, and received his commission on June 24, 1966.

1970

As a federal judge, Garrity was at the center of a contentious battle over desegregation busing in Boston from the 1970s to the 1980s.

1974

He found a recurring pattern of racial discrimination in the operation of the Boston public schools in a 1974 ruling.

His ruling found the schools were unconstitutionally segregated.

As a remedy, he used a busing plan developed by the Massachusetts State Board of Education to implement the state's Racial Imbalance Law that had been passed by the Massachusetts state legislature a few years earlier, requiring any school with a student enrollment that was more than 50% nonwhite to be balanced according to race.

The Boston School Committee consistently disobeyed orders from the state Board of Education.

Garrity's ruling, upheld on appeal by conservative judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and by the Supreme Court led by Warren Burger, required school children to be brought to different schools to end segregation and led to the Boston busing crisis of 1974-88.

"Opposition to desegregation exploded in some areas, particularly the largely Irish Catholic enclaves of Charlestown and South Boston, and spilled over into racial violence. Garrity became the target of death threats and at least two attempts on his life. He remained under guard 24 hours a day from 1974-78. He was scorned and snubbed by many; his name appeared in profane city graffiti; he was hanged in effigy, and demonstrators came to his home."

Garrity's brother was John T. Garrity, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, and his nephew is technology analyst David Garrity.

1985

He assumed senior status on December 1, 1985.

1988

By the final Garrity-decided court case in 1988, Garrity had assumed more control over a school system than any judge in American history.

An obituary in the New York Times noted that

1999

His service terminated on September 16, 1999, due to his death of cancer in Wellesley, Massachusetts.