Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jefferson County, banned demonstrations near the 165 public schools and gatherings of more than three persons along the school bus routes...
...beer bottles at police. Some whites were also irate that Senator Edward Kennedy has urged compliance with the court's busing order. The house in Brookline where John F. Kennedy was born was damaged by a Molotov cocktail. Painted on the front sidewalk was a piece of angry advice: BUS TEDDY...
...remedy such situations, the federal courts have frequently ordered cities to bus children to neighborhoods far from their homes. In addition to Boston and Louisville, cities now being forced by courts to bus include Miami; Corpus Christi and Beaumont, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Denver; San Francisco; Springfield...
...Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dayton and St. Louis County. Eventually, suits are likely to be brought to court in Chicago, New York and other cities where schools are largely segregated, even though the cause is most often housing patterns. The chances are very good that these communities will be ordered to bus...
Next morning, the boys got up at 5:45 a.m. to have breakfast before their father drove them ten blocks to catch a school bus at 6:50 a.m. Then they rode for 40 minutes to cover 16 miles to their new school, Stuart High, in suburban Jefferson County. The bus was pelted with rocks; passing motorists honked horns as a sign of antibusing protest and hurled racial insults. But there was no serious trouble at school, and the Woodses, a black middle-class family with an income of $20,000, felt the ordeal was well worthwhile...