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The code word "busing" came to dominate discussions about school desegregation because white "antibusing" protestors were careful students of the civil rights movement and TV & print media were eager to broadcast their protests

More here whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin… & in thread
At a 1964 rally in NYC a white mother told NBC TV that they took their strategies from civil rights activists: “We feel like we can prove as much as our opponents using the same tactics...These are our civil rights and we’re taking advantage of them.” whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
“Martin Luther King walked all over and he got a lot of things done,” Irene McCabe announced at an “antibusing” rally in Pontiac in 1971. “This is our civil rights movement." whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
Irene McCabe then led a 620 mile "Mother's March" from Pontiac to DC to protest "busing." Only 1500 people attended the rally in DC, but millions saw the "antibusing" message on TV. Viewers didn't hear how about court ruling that required desegregation whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
TV news broadcasts were particularly ill equipped to present complex stories
like school desegregation, which involved law, education, politics, social science, and history. whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
“TV didn’t determine the outcome, but it did aid and abet those motivated to destroy integration in any form,” LA judge Paul Egly said in 1981. “Anti-busing was the story TV could understand. TV didn’t understand the story that was going on in court." whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
As school desegregation is in the news again journalists have an important role to play. Rather than repeating code words like "busing" need to dig into research on how segregation took shape & how different districts have taken innovative & successful approaches to desegregation
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If school desegregation is “political poison” today it is in part because terms like “forced busing” & “de facto segregation” are repeated w/o context.

Here is some of what I learned in studying the history of “busing” for my book “Why Busing Failed" ucpress.edu/book/978052028…
First, school buses made the modern public school system possible. Number of students transported to school at public expense in US expanded from 600K in 1920 to 20M in 1970. Buses enabled multi-grade elementary schools and comprehensive high schools, rather than one-room schools
Buses had long been used in the South, as well as New York, Boston, and many other northern cities, to maintain segregation. These were mandatory assignments, but white parents did not oppose this “forced busing” whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
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"Biden takes flak on race and busing. But his views may still mirror America’s" by @isaacstanbecker. This is a good piece that quotes historian Brett Gadsden, whose book "Between North and South" is the best place to start to understand Biden and "busing" washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06…
To understand the #DemDebate2 exchange between #KamalaHarris & Joe #Biden, you have to understand that "busing" has been used since the 50s as a code word to oppose school integration. I cover this history in "Why Busing Failed" & the book's website whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
White parents in the North organized after Brown v Board to maintain segregated schools, using euphemisms like "busing" & "neighborhood schools" to maintain segregated schools without explicitly saying they didn't like black or Latinx students #DemDebate2 whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
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