Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew him doubted the depth and sincerity of his devotion to the people of the "other America" when he found them. He never talked more movingly than when he described the poor. "Have you ever noticed the faces of the children?" he would ask friends. "Up to a certain age, they are so much freer and less inhibited than the faces of well-to-do children. Then, when they are twelve or 13, those faces take on the hopeless look of their parents. They sense what they are up against...
...school issues arouse more passions than bussing children to achieve racial integration. It is clearly not a satisfactory long-range solution, especially in large cities where Negroes are heavily concentrated in large ghettos. But until urban housing patterns change, bussing is one practical way of getting a better racial balance in public schools, and it has worked out much better than expected in such cities as Evanston, Chicago and Seattle, where Negro children are transported to white neighborhood schools. This fall, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., are proving that it is just as feasible to send buses along...
Under the persuasive leadership of Superintendent Neil Sullivan and a five-man school board, Berkeley last September began bussing 2,000 white elementary pupils out of wooded, hillside suburbs to once heavily Negro schools in the flatlands near San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 black children move in the opposite direction. Another 2,000 students of each race were shifted to other schools within walking distance of their homes. The aim of all the trans fers was to make sure that each of Berkeley's 14 elementary schools has between 36% and 45% black enrollment. This closely matches...
...four years working to achieve that goal. When he came to Berkeley in 1964, several hundred high school students of both races were riding buses to attend the city's only high school. Sullivan immediately extended integration downward to junior high; a year later he started bussing Negro children from lower grades into white schools. When he integrated the city's nursery schools for three-and four-year-olds in 1966, he discovered that "the neighborhood school" was not as hallowed a concept as bussing opponents often suggest. Preschool tots normally have to be driven to school...
...integration program this fall has led to a few interracial scuffles; Sullivan blames them on the tendency of Negro children to play more roughly, causing misunderstandings. Otherwise, says Sullivan, the bussing plan has been "unbelievably successful...