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The Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Delmont, Matthew F. Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016.
students, but the story of “busing” has been told and retold as a story about the feelings and opinions of white people. The violent resistance that greeted school desegregation in mid-1970s Boston engraved that city’s “busing crisis” into school textbooks and cemented the failure of “busing” in the popular imagination.
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Jul 1, 2019 · “Busing as a political term … was a failure, because the narrative that came out of it from the media and politicians was almost only negative,” said Matt Delmont, a Dartmouth historian who ...
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Aug 31, 2016 · The Failure of Busing in the 1970s: Still Relevant Today How the term "busing" was used as a euphemism to mask outright racism in Boston. August 31, 2016 by Jennifer Berkshire Leave a Comment
Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students.
Nov 7, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Farah Stockman and Boston Public Library President David Leonard discuss the historical context around what is commonly known as a time of “busing in Boston” that took place in the early 1970s, as well as the wider effort to desegregate public schools across the U.S. Ms. Stockman shares her experiences reporting decades later on the busing crisis and gives ...
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Oct 6, 2016 · The other thing that happens is busing placed a tremendous burden on black students and on students of color. In most cases, they were the ones that were asked to travel to the suburbs, travel ...
