The origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act -- Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation -- Boston ...

In September 1975, Jefferson County Public Schools began court-ordered busing under a plan to desegregate local classrooms. The plan required the Louisville and Jefferson County school systems to ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After 30 years of running its schools under a court-ordered busing plan meant to desegregate, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district has been ordered to stop basing school assignments ...

In 1975, Jefferson County Public Schools first implemented forced busing under a court order to desegregate schools, which also required the previously separate Louisville and Jefferson County systems ...

Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...

The author recounts their experience as a white student bused to an inner-city Louisville school during desegregation 50 years ago. While some Black students resented the integration, the author ...

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...

School busing has for decades been a contentious tool for racial integration. And it is back in the spotlight 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, died in Texas.

You won’t want to miss Public Library Board Meeting on the Greendale Patch calendar ...