Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve...
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Author: Matthew F. Delmont
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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42 by Delmont, Matthew F.

Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

$113.05

Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42

$113.05
Author: Matthew F. Delmont
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780520284258


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2016 pg. 121

About the Author
Matthew F.Delmont is Professor of History at Arizona State University and author of The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia.

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