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Busing began as a well-intentioned idea to help eliminate a shameful American condition. But it ran against the deepest instincts of a clear majority of whites and quite a few blacks as well. The issue involves extremely painful conflicts of conscience and of law.
As a unanimous Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled for 21 years, the law and the Constitution require that public schools be desegregated. Because of neighborhood segregation, the only feasible way to integrate many urban schools is by busing students. Antibusing groups have tried and failed to get Congress to approve...
Many black leaders regard the opposition to busing of
(2 of 10) Northern and Border-state cities like Boston and Louisville as racist and no different from the Deep South's efforts to block school desegregation in the 1950s and early 1960s. As the title of a bitter N.A.A.C.P. report put it: It's Not the Distance, It's...
The cruel dilemma over busing has caused parents, both black and white, to raise a series of legitimate questions to which there are no easy answers: Is forced busing to balance schools racially worth all the uproar? Does it produce better schooling for disadvantaged black youngsters and no loss for...