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City-suburb school busing for the Louisville area was ordered by a district court of appeals in July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school...
On the surface, at least, the careful preparations seem to have paid off. Some white parents have been making the hot 40-minute drive daily from the suburbs to inner-city schools during the past few weeks to watch their sons practice on new integrated football teams; 18 black players...
Klan Protests. Nonetheless, there are ominous signs that the worst may still be ahead for Louisville. Last week's rehearsal was marred by a false bomb threat and an orderly protest by 40 white parents. Furthermore, union members at a 17,000-employee General Electric plant in the county...
Yet there are several other potential trouble spots round the nation. In Indianapolis, whose school system is 42% black, a federal appeals court last week stayed a lower court's ruling that would have required eight suburban school districts to accept enough black pupils from downtown to increase their...
The court activity in these and other cities suggests that the national commitment to school desegregation may be severely tested this year. Indeed, an increasing tolerance among moderate blacks of a cooler, slower pace of desegregation is already becoming apparent in some cities. Militants, of course, have long scoffed at...