History News Network

Source: Made By History at the Washington Post

4/20/2021

How White Americans’ Refusal to Accept Busing has Kept Schools Segregated

by Matthew D. Lassiter

The legal distinction between "de facto" and "de jure" segregation has always been a convenient fiction allowing the perpetuation of segregation by obscuring the role of government in creating and sustaining a racially discriminatory housing market.

Source: Time

9/11/19

Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?

Source: The Atlantic

7/10/19

Democrats’ Ominous Shift on School Segregation

by Brett Gadsden

It’s not just Joe Biden—the party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.

Source: NY Times

7/6/19

‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question

Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.

Source: Jezebel

6/3/2019

On Busing, Joe Biden, and the 'Pervasiveness of White Backlash to School Desegregation'

Jezebel spoke with Brett Gadsden, a history professor at Northwestern University and the author of Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism about how to understand Biden’s position as part of white backlash to desegregation efforts, the ongoing resegregation of American life, and the reality that, as he put it, “racial segregation is the norm, not the exception.”