When I was 9 years old, I left my father’s Interbay rental every day at 7:30 a.m. and trudged to the top of Queen Anne Hill, where I caught an orange school bus on a silent, tree-lined street. The bus ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris once shared that, in the 1970s, she was one of the many schoolchildren bused ...
Forced busing and racial integration in the 1970's create tension at one elementary school In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of busing children to achieve racial ...
Fifty years ago, a federal judge ordered the merger of two districts to integrate schools throughout Jefferson County — a moment that changed the trajectory of Louisville and its public schools. From ...
Mandating communities to build multifamily housing in their neighborhoods against their will is a replay of forced school busing of the 1970s. And like forced busing in Boston, it is bound to fail.
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, ...