which were made during his mayoral inauguration speeches. Health In 1970, during his campaign for governor, White underwent surgery that removed two-thirds of his stomach. In 2001, the since-retired White suffered a heart attack that left him with a pacemaker. In his advanced age, he lost hearing in his right ear and suffered from Alzheimer's disease. See also Timeline of Boston, 1960s-1980s References Further reading Harvard Center for Law and Education - A Study of the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act" (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1972) School Desegregation in Boston. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. June, 1975. Fulfilling the Letter and the Spirit of the Law: Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools - a Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C. . August, 1976. Emmett H. Buell and Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. - School Desegregation and Defended Neighborhoods: The Boston Controversy (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982) Eaton, Susan E. - The other Boston busing story: what's won and lost across the boundary line (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) Ronald Formisano - Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1991) Gerald Gamm - Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999) Lily D. Geismer - Don’t Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990 (University of Michigan, 2010) Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy in History George V. Higgins, Style Versus Substance: Boston, Kevin White and the Politics of Illusion (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984) Jon Hillson - Battle of Boston: busing and the struggle for school desegregation (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1977) Jonathan H. Kozol - Death at an Early Age (Plume, 1995) (Originally published in 1967) Frank Levy - Northern Schools and Civil Rights: The Racial Imbalance Act of Massachusetts (Chicago: Markham Publishing, 1971) Alan Lupo - Liberty’s Chosen Home: The Politics of Violence in Boston (Boston: Beacon Press, 1977) J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Vintage, 1986) John McGreevy - Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) Adam R. Nelson - The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985. (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2005) J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg - “I