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What can I say? Sleezy arguments, innuendos, inflated anecdotes--and legitimate complaints about abuses in preferential hiring and busing. Racial tensions had increased, I argued, because of scarce jobs and deteriorating schools for both black and white working class families. Our economy has always permitted blacks some exit from chronic...
In a unanimous 51-page decision, the three-judge panel upheld every aspect of the controversial Phase II busing program ordered last May by U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity.
Susie Marshall Sharp, 68, the only woman chief justice of a state supreme court, has been a trail blazer since Bella Abzug was a little girl. "Women lawyers aren't a curiosity any more, but I was a curiosity in my little town," says the woman from Rocky Mount, N.C...
The busing decision was Garrity's first major case in education or civil rights, and he was unprepared for the resistance and violence it generated among many of Boston's working-class whites. When antibusing demonstrators stoned busloads of black children and rampaged in the streets in the...
Busing foes have also set fire to Coleman's church twice in the last month, causing nearly $700,000 in damage.