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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

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"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, [this book posits that] 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 ...

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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42 2016, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520284258

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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42 2016, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520284241

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