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Odd Facts About Busing
The schools of Detroit and Boston [Sept. 1] were examined in court, far from headlines, and found to be racially segregated, offering today and every day inferior education to black children. Black people still cannot understand why busing was perfectly acceptable when it was used to segregate the races and...
"Back to school," once a pleasant, end-of-summer phrase, has virtually come to mean "Back to the barricades." In much of the U.S. last week, schoolchildren and their parents were concerned not with education but with busing, racial hostility and strikes. As buses began to roll, carrying black and...
Barely 24 hours earlier, Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane had proudly praised the people of Jefferson County for showing "restraint" and a "spirit of cooperation." As the first two days of court-ordered busing of 22,600 students between the city and the suburbs came to an end, Sloane had...
Several parents' organizations have been formed to protest busing. Says Shirley Warren, a leader of the group called Save Our Community Schools (membership: 5,000): "Parents attending our meetings are at loose ends. They don't know which way to turn. Things just aren't as calm...