ClydeR
09-10-2013, 05:31 PM
This is what the smart people are talking about this week.
The Battle For Busing
A story of America’s school integration and what happened when the buses stopped rolling.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, busing became a dirty word to parents of many school age children around the country, especially in the South. And no place attracted more attention than Charlotte, North Carolina, whose long fight over mandatory busing landed it in a closely-watched test case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The landmark 1971 ruling mandated that federal courts could impose a host of remedies, including busing, to force school integration in Charlotte, and opened the floodgates for busing students in hundreds of school districts across the country over the next decade.
More... (http://retroreport.org/the-battle-for-busing/)
The 10 minute video included in this article is good.
And a slightly different take on the same subject..
In many northern cities, the 1974 United States Supreme Court decision Milliken v. Bradley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley) killed any hopes of integrating the public schools. That ruling, involving Detroit and its suburbs, said that a mandatory plan to achieve integration by busing black children from Detroit across district lines to mainly white suburbs was unconstitutional. The result accelerated white flight to the suburbs, leaving the schools in urban centers even more segregated than they had been.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/booming/desegregation-and-the-public-schools.html)
The Battle For Busing
A story of America’s school integration and what happened when the buses stopped rolling.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, busing became a dirty word to parents of many school age children around the country, especially in the South. And no place attracted more attention than Charlotte, North Carolina, whose long fight over mandatory busing landed it in a closely-watched test case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The landmark 1971 ruling mandated that federal courts could impose a host of remedies, including busing, to force school integration in Charlotte, and opened the floodgates for busing students in hundreds of school districts across the country over the next decade.
More... (http://retroreport.org/the-battle-for-busing/)
The 10 minute video included in this article is good.
And a slightly different take on the same subject..
In many northern cities, the 1974 United States Supreme Court decision Milliken v. Bradley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley) killed any hopes of integrating the public schools. That ruling, involving Detroit and its suburbs, said that a mandatory plan to achieve integration by busing black children from Detroit across district lines to mainly white suburbs was unconstitutional. The result accelerated white flight to the suburbs, leaving the schools in urban centers even more segregated than they had been.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/booming/desegregation-and-the-public-schools.html)