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Louise Day Hicks, on the other hand, ran her typical low-keyed campaign with the slogan "You know where I stand." This refers to her position in the early 1960s while she was chairman of the Boston School Committee and opposed busing school children to achieve integration.
As of last week, the vast majority of U.S. public school children were back in class. Though there were a few pockets of resistance, hundreds of thousands of students, parents and administrators did their lawful and orderly best to cope with the difficulties of new court-ordered busing programs aimed...
In the South, racist politicians tried to make capital of the busing issue by urging parents to boycott the schools. Surprisingly few did. Alabama Governor George Wallace, for instance, visited a suburb of Mobile one day last week to plead with parents to resist busing "because it is not fair...
Jackson, Miss., faced a problem of a different nature. After school quietly opened with 8,000 of 29,000 elementary school children being bused, Governor John Bell Williams stepped in to muddle up the situation. To justify an executive order cutting off all state aid -not just funds for busing...
By week's end there was almost as much antibusing activity in the courts as in the streets. The school board of Winston-Salem, N.C., asked a U.S. District Court to reconsider its order requiring the busing of more than half the city's 48,000 public school...