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 ...