General |
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http://www.adversity.net/special/busing.htm
Special Adversity.Net
section inspired by the Boston Globe's
series of retrospectives on this historic
event since June 1999 marked
the 25th anniversary of federal judge
W. Arthur Garrity's 1974 order to
integrate Boston's schools through
forced busing. |
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Integration
and Busing: The Early Years. Princeton,
NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
2004.
A panel discussion on desegregation efforts in the South
that originally aired on CBS in 1957. |
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Brown
Blues: Rethinking the Integrative
Ideal. Drew S. Days, III.
Institute for Philosophy and Public
Policy Quarterly Newsletter. Volume
17, Number 4 (Fall 1997)
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/Fall97Report/days.htm
Drew S. Days, III,
is Alfred M. Rankin Professor
at Yale Law School. The
online essay has been
adapted from his chapter
in Redefining Equality,
edited by Neal Devins
and Davison M. Douglas,
copyright 1998 by Oxford
University Press. Published
by arrangement with Oxford
University Press, New
York. |
| New Orleans |
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Baker,
Liva. The Second Battle of New
Orleans: The Hundred-Year Struggle
to Integrate the Schools. New
York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Presents a thorough and scholarly
assessment of the rise of segregated
public schools in New Orleans, the
turmoil caused by court-mandated desegregation
and the (re)segregation of New Orleans
schools today. |
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Wells,
Amy E. "Good Neighbors? Distance,
Resistance and Desegregation in Metropolitan
New Orleans ." Urban Education 39.4
(2004): 408-427.
http://uex.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/4/408
A highly detailed
account of desegregation
in New Orleans using
the scholarly framework
of massive resistance
to account for white
protests against bussing
efforts. |
| Boston |
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Woflson,
John. "The Road to Perdition." Boston
Magazine August 2004.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=432
Provides basic background
on court-mandated attempts
to desegregate Boston public
schools and also addresses. |
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Dowling-Sendor,
Benjamin. "Diversity and Admissions." The
American Schoolboard Journal. (November
1998).
http://www.asbj.com/199811/1198schoollaw.html
Assess the arguments
made in favor of and against
admissions policies that
acknowledged race in an effort
to end de jure segregation
in Boston schools. |
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Formisano,
Ronald P. Boston Against Busing:
Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the
1960s and 1970s. North Carolina:
UNC P, 2004.
A scholarly assessment of
the white backlash against busing in
Boston. |
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Lukas,
Anthony J. Common Ground: A Turbulent
Decade in the Lives of Three American
Families . NY: Vintage, 1986.
This Pulitzer-prize winning
book provides the different perspectives
of one African American family and
two white families in Boston as court-mandated
school desegregation begins in 1974. |
| Prince George's County |
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Jost,
Kenneth. "From Busing to Magnets
to Money... a County's Struggle to
Desegregate." CQ Researcher 6.39
(1996): 924-926.
http://library2.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1996101800
Places the efforts of PG County to desegregate in the larger
context of the nation. |
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Johnston,
Robert C. "Md. District Plans Return
to Neighborhood Schools." Education
Week 20.13 (29 November 2000):
3.
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=3967641
Assess the impact
of the end of mandatory
busing in PG County. |
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Stanfield,
Rochelle E. "Making Money Matter." National
Journal 30.21 (1998):1176.
Specifically addresses desegregation plans and school financing
in PG County. (Available
online) |
