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Across the U.S., few issues have caused more bitterness than, or led to such disagreements over means vs. ends as, the court-ordered busing of students to end patterns of racial discrimination. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there were at least some limits beyond which busing need...
; Civil rights leaders were quick to stress that the ruling in the case of Oklahoma City Board of Education v. Dowell was no broad-brush renunciation of busing. Rather, it was a declaration that the existence of single-race schools did not necessarily amount to incontestable evidence of continued racial...
The case before the court involved an Oklahoma City busing program that began in 1972, nine years after a finding that both schools and housing in the city were intentionally segregated. In 1985 the Oklahoma City board adopted a policy that ended busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor...
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, overturned a 1989 ruling by a federal appeals court that refused to hand back the Oklahoma City schools to local control. The appeals court, he said, had held the school district to an overly strict standard in determining when the desegregation order...
Eyes on the Prize II (PBS). Henry Hampton's first documentary series about the civil rights movement stopped at 1965, just when things were getting complicated. His sequel continued the story, from the Black Panthers to busing in Boston, and sorted out the issues with the same insight and evenhandedness...