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In the decades after the landmark  Brown v. Board of Education  Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues.  Why Busing Failed  is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students. This broad and incisive history of busing features a cast of characters that includes national political figures such as then-president Richard Nixon, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, and antibusing advocate Louise Day Hicks, as well as some lesser-known activists on both sides of the issue—Boston civil rights leaders Ruth Batson and Ellen Jackson, who opposed segregated schools, and Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, black conservative Clay Smothers, and Florida governor Claude Kirk, all supporters of school segregation.  Why Busing Failed shows how antibusing parents and politicians

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Author

Matthew F. Delmont

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520284258

Category

history

Subjects

History, Education, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14