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In sum, busing is most likely to be accomplished peacefully when 1) the number of nonwhites in each school is less than 40%; 2) students are not bused to schools that are inferior to the ones that they previously attended; 3) schools are near enough so that the parents of...
Many parents?both black and white?believe that forced busing is futile unless it can be demonstrated to benefit black children. Some blacks consider it demeaning to pursue whites farther and farther out into the suburbs. On the other hand, long experience has shown that predominantly black schools in many...
Coleman has recently cooled his enthusiasm for busing and believes that it drives too many whites out of the city school systems and leaves blacks with many of the same school problems as before. He cites the eight largest cities in the U.S. that have desegregated schools to some extent...
Urban school systems in both the South and the North are getting blacker, as white parents continue to transfer their children to private systems or move to the suburbs. Since court-ordered desegregation went into effect in Memphis in 1973, the white enrollment in the schools has declined from 50...
The most vehement objections to busing are raised by lower-class whites who regard blacks as an economic threat. Says Harvard Psychologist Robert Coles: "The ultimate reality is the reality of class. Having and not having is the real issue. To talk only in terms of racism is to miss...