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Today is the anniversary of a massive school boycott in NYC 1964. 460,000 students stayed out of school to protest school segregation and racial discrimination in the city's schools salon.com/2016/02/03/jim…
Here is a great piece @yasmeenkhan did on the Feb 3, 1964 New York City school boycott for @WNYC wnyc.org/story/school-b…
@yasmeenkhan @WNYC The massive 1964 NYC school boycott emerged from decades of civil rights activism in the city and throughout the North. Student activists staged school boycotts in Boston, Chicago & other cities to protest similar types of segregation and discrimination whybusingfailed.com/anvc/why-busin…
@yasmeenkhan @WNYC Today, @TeensTakeCharge are continuing the fight against school segregation and educational inequality in NYC
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Launching today – "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers," an open-access digital book from @stanfordpress blackquotidian.org

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Black Quotidian explores how the black press popularized Af-Am history and valued the lives of black people. Introductory essays on the history of black newspapers are followed by over 365 short posts on individual historical newspaper articles blackquotidian.supdigital.org/bq/overview
You can explore Black Quotidian in several different ways. You can start with one of the 8 thematic paths blackquotidian.supdigital.org/bq/themes Or, you can start with a specific month blackquotidian.supdigital.org/bq/march---arc… Or, you can pick a random date blackquotidian.supdigital.org/bq/july-30-1955
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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…
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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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