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James S. Coleman, author of a 1966 report that called for school integration as a means of achieving racial equality, said last night in Boston that he disapproves of court-ordered busing as a means of promoting integration.
Coleman's 1966 report was used by courts and civil rights groups as evidence to promote the busing of students to desegregate schools.
However, Coleman, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, said last night on a televised news program that busing is too "blunt an instrument" because it encourages whites to flee from the cities and move to predominantly white suburbs.
Leary said he would like to see a metropolitan busing plan that would affect the suburbs as well as Boston itself. Boston is an almost completely working class city, he said, and its whites and blacks fight "for the same jobs, the same turf".
Charles V. Willie, professor of Education and one of four court-appointed masters studying busing in Boston, moderated the discussion.