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Reflection

Although the intentions meant well and were done so to integreate the younger generations, in 1999 busing ended resulting in the segregation of the schools in that area again, nevertheless nowadays it is evident how far we have come as a society as we have come to understand and appreciate others for their diffferences rather than hold them against them. Afterall if everyone was the same wouldn't it be a boring world?

Works cited

"Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2015. Web. 26 Oct. 2015

<http://www.britannica.com/event/Swann-v-Charlotte-Mecklenburg-Board-of-Education>.

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, "The Incomplete Desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools and Its Consequences," in School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?, ed. John Charles Boger and Gary Orfield (Chapel Hill, 2005); Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (U.S. Supreme Court, 1971), http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0402_0001_ZO.html (accessed April 2009); J. Harvie Wilkinson, From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954-1978 (New York, 1981).

Overview

Busing

  • Who? Vera and Darius Swann demanded that their six-year-old child attent Seversville Elementary School
  • Why? It was the closest one to their house and one of the few integrated schools in the area
  • How? The NAACP sued on their begald the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district
  • When?April 20, 1971
  • At first accepted and viewed as a way to combat segregation
  • Later criticized by both whites and African American as, these last ones believed that they were most often harmed than done well in the bus and it was uneccesary to endure long communtes to and from school
  • It continued to be present in major citiesunitl the late 1990s

Veredict

Background Info

  • James McMillan, the federal district judge in the case, ruled in favour of the Swanns
  • Busing strategy was implemented into the distict's schools
  • Decision was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld it.
  • The busing strategy was adopted elsewhere in the United States and played an instrumental role in integrating U.S. public schools->->-> would face problems
  • In 1954 after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka it was decided that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • However, schools remained segregated in the late 1960s b/c of
  • Housing patterns
  • Resistance by local leaders
  • for example in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the mid-1960s > than 5 percent of African American children attended integrated schools
  • busing was used by white officials to maintain segregation.

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Ana Velastegui

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