num_pages: 304
description: In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nations 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 issueBoston 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.
language: English
title: Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Volume 42)
publisher: University of California Press