1977 SPECIAL REPORT: "DESEGREGATION GRADUATION" скачать в хорошем качестве

1977 SPECIAL REPORT: "DESEGREGATION GRADUATION"

The Pontiac, Michigan School District was ordered to integrate in 1970, and the district implemented a busing plan in 1971. The desegregation effort was met with protests and violence, including the bombing of ten school buses. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were unconstitutional. In 1970, a federal judge ordered the Pontiac School District to integrate its schools by the fall of 1970. The judge ordered the district to revise attendance boundaries and use busing to achieve integration. The Pontiac School Board resisted integration, fearing white flight. The National Action Group (NAG) led local opposition to the busing plan. White parents protested "racial incidents" in the schools. White workers picketed GM Truck and Coach, the company that builds school buses. On August 30, 1971, ten school buses were bombed by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1974, the court ruled that the district had complied with the desegregation decree and that all vestiges of segregation had been removed. In April, 1971 , using the School Board's boundary changes and considerable other data to substantiate their case, they won a court order to desegregate the schools. Eight days after the Klan bombed the buses, the schools were opened. #BLACKHISTORY #CIVILRIGHTSMOVEMENT #americanhistory