Despite Feud Over Busing

Despite Feud Over Busing, Harris and Biden Agree on Current ...

The two Democratic presidential rivals support the same bill in Congress to address racial disparities in schools.

It Was Never About Busing - The New York Times

There is a reason the cheery yellow school bus is the most ubiquitous symbol of American education. Buses eased the burden of transportation on ...

Desegregation in Schools and the Boston Busing Crisis - The Atlantic

Desegregating schools by shuttling kids across town failed. That doesn't mean the achievability or significance of the original goal must fail, too.

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for ...

Joe Biden helped give America the language that is still used to oppose school integration today, legislative and education history experts say.

Joe Biden explained opposition to desegregation busing in 1981 ...

Joe Biden said in a 1981 CNN interview that he opposed busing to desegregate schools and that he supported efforts to cut back on courts' ...

Desegregation busing - Wikipedia

Desegregation 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 ...

How White Americans' refusal to accept busing has kept schools ...

Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued the landmark decision of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the most far-reaching school ...

Kamala Harris and the Busing Debate - The Atlantic

During the second Democratic presidential debate, Senator Kamala Harris of California challenged former Vice President Joe Biden regarding a ...

Don't romanticize busing. It was an imperfect tool in the fight against ...

Joe Biden has landed on the wrong side of history on this issue; Harris made that clear. He sided with conservatives on busing and suggested a ...

Pain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School Integration

In 2023, American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity ...

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ...

How the left's embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

After that, the trend reversed dramatically. As of the 1996-97 school year, the ratio of black to white students in public schools fell below ...

Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get ...

Biden took a lead role in the fight, speaking out repeatedly and forcefully against sending white children to majority-black schools and black children to ...

An illustrated history of the busing crisis in Boston

Massachusetts was the first state to abolish segregating public schools on the basis of skin color or race. But de facto segregation ...

Joe Biden's record on school desegregation busing, explained - Vox

“I did not oppose busing in America,” Biden, who represented Delaware in the US Senate from 1973 to 2009, responded. “What I opposed is busing ...

New details revealed about Biden's busing record: Why was he so ...

The big question surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden's candidacy may be whether he is deft enough to navigate the politics of backlash and consensus.

It Was Never About The Buses: Personal And Political Reflections ...

White protestor attacks African-American passerby with American flag at a 1976 'anti-busing' rally in Boston. (Photo credit: NPR).

Being Bused | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

The controversial Federal plan called for busing black students out of their neighborhoods and into white neighborhoods, where the schools were better supplied, ...

When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists | The Nation

Advocates for children and civil rights who have not yet given up entirely on the struggle to break down the walls of racial isolation in ...

SCHOOLS: The Busing Dilemma | TIME

This year's efforts to desegregate schools in Boston, Louisville and at least 18 other cities promise to be a searing experience for both blacks and whites.