| Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42 Contributor(s): Delmont, Matthew F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520284240 ISBN-13: 9780520284241 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - History | United States - 20th Century - History | African American |
| Dewey: 379.263 |
| LCCN: 2015031885 |
| Series: American Crossroads |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 ultimately succeeded in preventing full public school desegregation. |