As the wheels of desegregation turned round and round in Corpus Christi, court-ordered busing consumed local educational ...
The school-busing policies of the 20th century weren’t just unpopular; the ensuing fallout to school integration was so great that many Americans have written it off as a total failure. White flight, ...
Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation busing crisis led to a series of racial protests and violent riots that ...
In 1975, I started second grade in the Scottsdale neighborhood off New Cut Road in Auburndale. It was the first year of busing, and I was the only child in my neighborhood who went to school on the ...
I am writing in response to the very important Sept. 10 op-ed by Lew Finfer, “On the 50th anniversary of Boston busing, what have we learned?” The need to acknowledge the decades-long struggle to ...
Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...