Why Busing Failed

In the decades after the landmark  Brown v. Board of Education  Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues.  Why Busing Failed  is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence