Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, And The National Resistance To School Desegregation (Volume 42) (American Crossroads) - 9780520284258

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 and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation--Provided by publisher.

• | Author: Matthew F. Delmont
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0520284259
• | ISBN-13: 9780520284258