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Why Busing Failed
Matthew F. Delmont
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University of California Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
african american history, president richard nixon, school, segregation, civil rights, school desegregation, school settings, high profile case, political, black students, school segregation, racism, brown vs board of education, history, schooling, racial segregation, united states of america, education, american crossroads series, 20th century american history, busing, american politics, 20th century american politics, american racism, american segregation, national politics, social hierarchy, white parents