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Next morning, when buses began their first runs, a few whites tried to block them with their cars. But police quickly cleared the way. Later in the day there were other disruptions, including a march by 1,000 antibusing demonstrators in downtown Louisville and some bomb threats at newly integrated...
Then on Friday night, after relieved city and county officials had left their offices, what everyone had feared finally happened. Driving to local high school football games scheduled that evening, thousands of teen-agers and adults were clogging the highways of southwestern Jefferson County, a largely blue-collar section. Honking...
As word of the fighting spread, antibusing forces, most of them teenagers, began gathering at other nearby schools. At Southern High, they smashed the windows and slashed the tires of 40 school buses and set fire to two more, built bonfires and chanted: "We don't want niggers in...
Even before the weekend disorders, there had been signs that Louisville's whites were not going to accept busing without resistance. At Fairdale High, in a suburban working-class neighborhood, 70% of the white pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the...
At week's end many of Louisville's whites remained adamant in their opposition to busing. But officials seemed even more determined that the law would be carried out. Jefferson County School Superintendent Ernest Grayson announced that on Monday buses would roll as scheduled, and Judge Gordon backed...