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The bitter and seemingly endless debate over busing had led many politicians and educators to predict that it will be abandoned as a tool for desegregating schools. Declares a university president in Massachusetts: "Busing is a cause whose time has passed." There is a danger that opposition to busing will...
To achieve integration through evolution (better incomes for blacks, better housing, in time leading to peaceful mixed neighborhoods) would obviously be excruciatingly slow. Thus busing will remain inevitable and perhaps necessary in some situations. But it is clearly not a good solution. To replace it eventually, it is necessary to...
That does not mean they enjoy busing. "I'm really not for it," says Woods. "I'd much rather have the boys closer to home." Last year Ken walked to Martin Luther King School, only two blocks from his trim red brick home in the city's...
For the parents, the most important factor is the educational opportunities now offered to their boys. Says Woods about the busing plan: "It's the best thing that has happened since the Supreme Court ruling of 1954. We're 20 years late, but it is going to better...
Mrs. Woods notes that she had not been closely exposed to whites until college. "Why must someone wait half his life for that?" she asks. "If busing is going to mean a long struggle, then so be it." Nevertheless, Mrs. Woods is worried. "What," she asks, "is going to happen...