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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Volume 42) (American Crossroads) by Matthew F. Delmont is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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, 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. This national history of busing brings together well-known political figures such as Richard Nixon and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, with less well known figures like Boston civil rights activist Ruth Batson, Florida Governor Claude Kirk, Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, and Clay Smothers (the self-proclaimed "most conservative black man in America"). This book shows that shows that "busing" failed to more fully desegregate public schools because school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires
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- Author
- Matthew F. Delmont
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520959873
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Education, American Studies
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