MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03338cam a22003978i 4500
001 2015031885
003 DLC
005 20150827114030.0
008 150817t20162016cau b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015031885
020 $a9780520284241 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0520284240 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780520284258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0520284259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9780520959873 (ebook)
020 $z0520959876 (ebook)
040 $aCU-S/DLC$beng$erda$cCU-S
042 $apcc
050 00 $aLC214.52$b.D45 2016
082 00 $a379.2/63$223
100 1 $aDelmont, Matthew F.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhy busing failed :$bconservative politics, TV news, and the backlash to integration /$cMatthew F. Delmont.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAmerican Crossroads ;$v42
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act -- Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation -- Boston before the "busing crisis" : black education activism and official resistance in the cradle liberty -- Standing against "busing" : bipartisan and national political opposition to school desegregation -- Richard Nixon's "antibusing" presidency -- "Miserable women on television" : Irene McCabe, television news, and grassroots "anti-busing" politics -- "It's not the bus, it's us" : the complexity of black opinions on "busing" -- Television news and the making of the Boston "busing crisis".
520 $a"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Why Busing Failed shows how school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation. This national history of busing brings together well-known political figures such as Richard Nixon and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, with less well known figures like Boston civil rights activist Ruth Batson, Florida Governor Claude Kirk, Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, and Clay Smothers (the self-proclaimed "most conservative black man in America"). This book shows that shows that "busing" failed to more fully desegregate public schools because school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aBusing for school integration$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSchool integration$xMassive resistance movement$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aAmerican crossroads ;$v42.