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Eaton, Susan E. – 2001
This book examines a long-running voluntary desegregation program in Boston as a model of the long-range benefits and present-day challenges of integrating America's schools. The book presents interviews with program participants who are now adults and recounts their struggles and achievements. It explores the ways in which the Metropolitan…
Descriptors: Black Students, Busing, Desegregation Plans, Educational History
Formisano, Ronald P. – 1991
This study of the reaction to forced busing in Boston (Massachusetts) that emerged in 1974 illustrates the persistence of race and class discrimination and the counterproductiveness of some imposed solutions. It is focused on white antibusing groups and the complexities of opposition to busing. Racism is essential to understanding the Boston…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects
Graglia, Lino A. – 1976
The author strongly criticizes busing, the compulsory transportation of school children out of their neighborhoods to increase school racial balance. He reviews all the major court decisions bearing on busing and school integration since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. He maintains that the Supreme Court stepped out of the…
Descriptors: Busing, Court Litigation, Court Role, Desegregation Effects
