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Article: JAMES COLEMAN, 68; PROPONENT OF BUSING.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1995
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Byline: New York Times
CHICAGO James S. Coleman, the renowned University of Chicago sociologist whose controversial studies laid much of the groundwork for and against the use of busing to desegregate schools in the 1960s and 1970s, and later helped shape American education policies by comparing public and private schools, died Saturday at the University of Chicago Hospital. He was 68.
Coleman died of prostate cancer, said William Harms, a spokesman for the University of Chicago, where Coleman had spent much of his career as a teacher, researcher and author. Since 1973, he had been University Professor of Sociology.
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