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There will be many cerebral pieces now about opposition to busing. About working class white parents who just wanted a good education for their kids. But this is what it was like. In Boston.
'It Was Like A War Zone': Busing In Boston wbur.fm/Yh11Ym via @WBUR
'It Was Like A War Zone': Busing In Boston wbur.fm/Yh11Ym via @WBUR
So before the writing starts. Remember that white children were bused to school w/out concern or incident for years. It was being bused to Black schools that was the issue. Framing the issue as about "busing" or "forced busing" was a way to obscure that this was about race.
If we want to talk about court-ordered school integration, there's a lot to discuss. But a "busing" conversation is a dodge.
That’s why the great Jean Fairfax, (who passed away three weeks ago) and her team researched white parent resistance to busing and wrote a report on their findings in 1972. They named the report after a white parent’s honest statement of her opposition to busing: 
The framing that dominated politics was busing.Not again, pls. If you don’t think a federal court has the authority to make a local gov take action to reverse decades of official & intentional discrimination, say so. If you do present your plan & show how you’ve fought for it.
