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Article: Black mayors challenge busing Politicians say better schools, neighborhoods come first
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 10, 1994
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As civil rights leaders prepare to mark the 40th anniversary of
the landmark Supreme Court case that ordered the nation to integrate
schools, opposition to student busing is arising from an
untraditional source: black mayors.
While civil rights activists across the country continue to
support court-ordered school desegregation, new attitudes among black
political leaders are taking hold in cities such as St. Louis,
Cleveland and Denver, where recently elected black mayors have taken
surprising antibusing stands.
Consider the words of Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. of St. Louis.
"It's time we bring the program to an end and use the millions of
dollars that have been spent on busing to improve the ...