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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

Delmont, Matthew F.

Hardcover

Series: American Crossroads, Book 42

Black American History20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0520284240
ISBN13: 9780520284241
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues. 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.

This broad and incisive history of busing features a cast of characters that includes national political figures such as then-president Richard Nixon, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, and antibusing advocate Louise Day Hicks, as well as some lesser-known activists on both sides of the issue--Boston civil rights leaders Ruth Batson and Ellen Jackson, who opposed segregated schools, and Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, black conservative Clay Smothers, and Florida governor Claude Kirk, all supporters of school segregation. Why Busing Failed shows how antibusing parents and politicians ultimately succeeded in preventing full public school desegregation.

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