THE BURDEN OF BUSING
This is the story of how a national policy to desegregate the public schools changed a prominent American city’s education system.
ABOUT
The 25-year desegregation of Nashville, Tennessee public schools was concluded with a controversial “Busing” decision in 1971. This book is an analysis of the events from the Civil War forward that led to the city’s unique social culture and how it figured into the legal educational decision. Desegregation sent citizens of both races into a frenzy of legal activity and led to a new political plan for all residents of Davidson County.
The book analyzes the municipal busing design and implementation in the city/county school system. The racial effects shaped the present school system, and led to a lack of support for the public arrangement. The result is that education in a large American city is divided between a largely black public system and a competing private one. The chapters follow enrollment and education patterns, like school-day experiences, white flight and public education desertion, for some five years after implementation. The ear-splitting controversy that went along with the court action became national news.
Richard A. Pride and J. David Woodard
University of Tennessee Press | Knoxville, TN | 1985
NOW IN HARDBACK & DIGITAL
