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Why Busing Failed to Desegregate Our Schools
Matthew Delmont, associate professor of history at Arizona State University and the author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (University of California Press, 2016), digs into the history of busing as a means to achieve school desegregation, why it ultimately didn't work and how the effects of its failure still linger in our schools today.
Delmont said there are three myths around desegregation:
- The idea of de facto segregation: There's a perception that segregation in the North was somehow less serious than it was in the South. That's just not true.
- News media played a positive role in leading the nation in a better direction for civil rights: While television and newspapers did a good job of forcing people to confront the issues of civil rights in the South, the national media was much more timid with the North.
- Busing started in Boston in the 1970s: the idea of busing actually began in New York.