America 1970-1979: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.

America 1970-1979: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1970-1979.
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The trial judge in the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg case that established busing as a remedy for. past school segregation, Federal District Judge James B. McMillan, said, I grew up. . . accepting the segregated life which was the way of America for its first 300 years. ... I hoped that we would be forever saved from the folly of transporting children from one school to another for the purpose of maintaining a racial balance of students in each school.... I first said, "What's wrong in Charlotte?" .... I set the case for hearing reluctantly. I heard it reluctantly, at first unbelievingly. After ... I began to deal in terms of facts and information instead of in terms of my natural-born raising, I began to realize ... that something should be done. ... I have had to spend some thousands of hours studying the subject . . . and have been brought by...

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