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As I prepared for my trip here this fall, I recalled my first visit to Boston, in the 1970's, at the height of the school busing crisis here. the Boston Globe's front page greeted me at Logan Airport with the photo of a suit-and tie-wearing Black...
The city's population has plummeted 30% since 1960, largely because of white flight that reached supersonic speeds in 1976, when the public schools started court-ordered busing. The county's black population has held steady at about 18%, but Montgomery County remains so segregated that activists hold annual rallies...
But Kozol has no illusions about the political feasibility of such a system. "Virtually no white liberals are willing to discuss this," he says. Even during the Boston busing crisis, Kozol says, Boston suburban liberals "used their own racism to exonerate racists of South Boston."
Q. But wasn't busing a code word for race?
A. No. A lot of blacks were against busing right here in Alabama. In fact, if it was a code word, every one of them that ran in 1976 was against busing. I wasn't the only one against busing.