Why busing failed : race, media, and the national resistance to school desegregation /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Delmont, Matthew F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:American crossroads ; 42.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Busing for school integration > United States > History > 20th century.
School integration > Massive resistance movement > United States > History > 20th century.
Ramassage scolaire aux fins de déségrégation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Déségrégation en éducation > Mouvement de résistance massive > Histoire > 20e siècle.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Busing for school integration.
School integration > Massive resistance movement.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act
  • Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation
  • Boston before the "busing crisis" : black education activism and official resistance in the cradle of liberty
  • Standing against "busing" : bipartisan and national political opposition to school desegregation
  • Richard Nixon's "antibusing" presidency
  • "Miserable women on television" : Irene McCabe, television news, and grassroots "anti-busing" politics
  • "It's not the bus, it's us" : the complexity of black opinions on "busing"
  • Television news and the making of the Boston "busing crisis."

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