Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-257) and index.
Contents:
The origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act -- Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation -- Boston before the "busing crisis" : black education activism and official resistance in the cradle liberty -- Standing against "busing" : bipartisan and national political opposition to school desegregation -- Richard Nixon's "antibusing" presidency -- "Miserable women on television" : Irene McCabe, television news, and grassroots "anti-busing" politics -- "It's not the bus, it's us" : the complexity of black opinions on "busing" -- Television news and the making of the Boston "busing crisis".
Summary:
"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, 'Why Busing Failed' shows how school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation..."--Publisher provided.
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