audiobook Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century by From Hosang Daniel Martinez in History

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In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision; busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s 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 issue—Boston 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.