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As officials had expected, the transition proceeded in an atmosphere of orderly tension. Heeding appeals from Governor John Bell Williams to "make the best of a bad situation," Mississippians refrained from the acts of violence that had marked earlier attempts to desegregate the state's schools. Nor, with the...
Unlike Southern school segregation, which is the result of official policy, segregation in the North is less purposeful and harder to correct. In most cities, segregation came about accidentally, only to be perpetuated deliberately. In Chicago, where educational separation is the result of segregated housing patterns, whites have voted down...
Mrs. Hicks has been a steadfast opponent of the racial imbalance laws in Massachusetts which forbid school enrollments more than 50 per cent non-white. She also has stubbornly opposed proposals to remedy racial imbalance in the city of Boston through busing.
Her opponent, Kevin White has not staged a particularly distinguished campaign, never transcending the anonymity of being simply the good man running against Hicks. He has hedged on the question of racial busing, failing to match the implicit bigotry of Mrs. Hicks' adulation for the neighborhood school with an explicit...
In addition, busing plans must be arranged. Miss Adams pointed out that Wellesley currently operates operates a modest busing service to Harvard Square and various parts of Boston.