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Freedom of Choice. The amendment languished in committee for months. Then a court order requiring massive busing in Richmond (see box) and other cities reopened resistance. A recent Gallup poll showed that 77% of Americans-black and white-disapproved of busing as a means of racially balancing school enrollment...
There is already some of that. In Richmond, resistance to the desegregation order is in its seventh week. A white boycott of Augusta, Ga., schools last week left classrooms virtually empty, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter endorsed a one-day, statewide boycott to be held next week in sympathy. The Florida legislature drafted an antibusing proposition to be voted on in the March 14 primary. Governor Reubin Askew countered by adding to the ballot a question asking Floridians, however they feel about busing, to assert their commitment to equal opportunity for all races. Thus a presidential primary will incorporate...
Beneath all the emotion was the recognition that the U.S. seemed on the verge of a major new round of court decisions attacking segregation in the schools. The Richmond decision, acknowledging that primarily black central-city school systems can be balanced racially only by reaching out to the suburbs, is probably only the beginning. This spring the Supreme Court will rule on a suit that challenges de facto school segregation resulting from segregated housing patterns. In the past, non-Southern cities have escaped court orders because they were aimed at the de jure segregation of dual school systems. But should...
...RICHMOND is a peaceful, tobacco-rich community nestled on the banks of Virginia's James River. Last week, however, many of the area's 480,000 citizens seemed ready to take to the Civil War trenches that still border parts of the city. Once the embattled capital of the Confederacy, Richmond is now the center of a school-busing war that has touched off a cross fire of bitter invective...
School busing, an issue that has been smoldering in Richmond for two years, last month flared up when U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige handed down a landmark decision (TIME, Jan. 24). To end Richmond's unequal and racially imbalanced educational structure, Merhige ordered that the increasingly black (now 69%) city school system be consolidated with the two predominantly white (91%) districts in suburban Henrico and Chesterfield counties. The order, which has been temporarily stayed pending an appeal, has important implications for other U.S. cities where the pattern of a "white noose" of suburbia surrounding a black-dominated central...