Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Volume 42) (American Crossroads)

Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, & Pontiac, Why Busing Failed shows how school officials, politicians, courts, & the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, & how antibusing parents & politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation. 

This national history of busing brings together well-known political figures such as Richard Nixon & Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, with less well known figures like Boston civil rights activist Ruth Batson, Florida Governor Claude Kirk, Pontiac housewife & antibusing activist Irene McCabe, & Clay Smothers (the self-proclaimed "most conservative black man in America"). 

This book shows that shows that “busing” failed to more fully desegregate public schools because school officials, politicians, courts, & the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students"