School Busing Ends in North Carolina
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History
- Geographical Location: North Carolina
- Date: September 10, 1999
Article abstract: The school system that thirty years earlier had pioneered school busing for desegregation was ordered to halt its busing program by a federal judge who ruled that forced integration was no longer necessary because intentional discrimination had disappeared.
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
In 1965, more than a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark school desegregation decision, only 2 percent of black schoolchildren in Charlotte, North Carolina, attended integrated schools. To maintain this racial...
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