busing crisis
Integration transport controversy
The busing crisis refers to the intense social and political conflict in the United States during the 1970s over court-ordered school desegregation, particularly the practice of transporting students by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods to achieve racial integration.
Boston's crisis from 1974 onward became emblematic, with violent protests and white flight reshaping the city for decades: The busing crisis tore communities apart.
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- BostonMassachusetts state capital
- integrationCombining into a whole
- schoolPlace of instruction
- public schoolsGovernment-funded educational institutions
1970s · protests · riots · courts · segregation · racial · neighborhood · resistance · forced · NAACP · South Boston · violence · race riots · backlash · magnet schools · federal · district · civil rights
busing crisisneighborhood schools
Institutions serving local students
school choice · open enrollment · parental choice · community schools · charter schools
busing crisisschool segregation
Racial division in education
separate but equal · resegregation · Plessy v. Ferguson · de facto segregation · white flight
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