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Why Busing Failed
Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
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Why Busing Failed
Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Why Busing Failed
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 ⢠The Origins of âAntibusingâ Politics: From New York Protests to the Civil Rights Act
- 2 ⢠Surrender in Chicago: Citiesâ Rights and the Limits of Federal Enforcement of School Desegregation
- 3 ⢠Boston before the âBusing Crisisâ: Black Education Activism and Official Resistance in the Cradle of Liberty
- 4 ⢠Standing against âBusingâ: Bipartisan and National Political Opposition to School Desegregation
- 5 ⢠Richard Nixonâs âAntibusingâ Presidency
- 6 ⢠âMiserable Women on Televisionâ: Irene McCabe, Television News, and Grassroots âAntibusingâ Politics
- 7 ⢠âItâs Not the Bus, Itâs Usâ: The Complexity of Black Opinions on âBusingâ
- 8 ⢠Television News and the Making of the Boston âBusing Crisisâ
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index