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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tensions ran high when a federal judge ordered cross-district busing to desegregate schools in Charlotte and suburban Mecklenberg County in 1970. Racial fights erupted, sometimes among hundreds of students. One in every six white students transferred to private schools. But whites have gradually if rather grudgingly accepted...
PONTIAC, MICH. Racial confrontations, the bombing of buses and a school boycott made Pontiac a national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school...
(6 of 10) planning for busing, in which advisory groups of both white and black parents exchanged views and worked together in other ways to reduce tensions. Jacksonville experienced only minor disturbances in 1972, when students were first bused. Still, during the next two years, about 10,000 white pupils...
DENVER. Contrary to many fears, Denver had no violence last year when it began busing a third of its 78,000 students (19% nonwhite) to desegregate all public schools. One reason for the calm: a court-appointed advisory council of blacks and whites defused tensions. Though white parents withdrew 7...
PASADENA, CALIF. This city peacefully integrated its public schools in 1970 by busing 43% of its 26,000 students. Since then, says School District Administrator Peter Hagen, white students' achievement in the nearly integrated schools has actually improved, but "we have not been able to bring the black and brown...