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Desegregation busing (also known simply as busing or integrated busing or forced busing) was an attempt to diversify the racial make-up of schools in the United States by sending students to school districts other than their own. [1] While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision in Brown v.
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from ...
The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On May 26, 1956, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A&M University students, were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for "placing themselves in a ...
As a federal judge, Garrity was at the center of a contentious battle over desegregation busing in Boston from the 1970s to the 1980s. He found a recurring pattern of racial discrimination in the operation of the Boston public schools in a 1974 ruling. [3] His ruling found the schools were unconstitutionally segregated. [3]
But by 1974, the case had made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in a 5-4 vote that the district and the state could not be ordered to implement a desegregation plan ...
Black folk have gone, in effect, from the back of the bus to the lack of a bus. The school board’s decision occurs amid a backdrop of JCPS transportation operations dysfunction , something that ...
Kerrigan joined the white flight to the suburbs caused by school busing, moving to Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1978. [6] In 1994 Kerrigan ran unsuccessfully for the Governor's Council. [1] After a cancer diagnosis, he expressed public regret for being "more abusive than most." [11] Kerrigan died in 1996 at the age of 64. He was a practicing ...
In 1961, 18-year-old Person joined a group of 12 other civil rights activists, Black and white, to travel by bus into the Deep South. ... threats and even death to give to us.” ...