Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As a unanimous Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled for 21 years, the law and the Constitution require that public schools be desegregated. Because of neighborhood segregation, the only feasible way to integrate many urban schools is by busing students. Antibusing groups have tried and failed to get Congress to approve...
Boston and Louisville demonstrated anew that Northern cities are no happier with school desegregation than their counterparts in the South. Since the historic Supreme Court decision of 1954 that separate schools can never be equal, hundreds of communities have been forced by the courts to desegregate. Most are in the...
(6 of 10) planning for busing, in which advisory groups of both white and black parents exchanged views and worked together in other ways to reduce tensions. Jacksonville experienced only minor disturbances in 1972, when students were first bused. Still, during the next two years, about 10,000 white pupils...
Boston's current troubles are also due to a public-school leadership that has been almost unique in the North for its policies of segregation. The schools are run by a committee whose five members are elected at-large throughout the city; the committee has never had a black...
Early this summer Coleman incurred the censure of many academics−who charged that he used suspect statistics−when, after a new study of racial data in U.S. public schools, he announced that at least in major cities, "busing has not worked" as a means of desegregation. His reason...