“MAINSTREAM CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT(BUSSING) Flashcards
What was President Johnson worried about?what did he do?
-)increase in number of AA violence and extremism of the CR movement after 1965,
Hoped Gov action would decrease extremism
What did the CRA 1964 confirm?
The 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 ruling that federal funding could be cut to schools that resisted integration
What did President Johnson use effectively?
The CRA confirmation of the 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 ruling (funding cut)
so by end of his presidency in 1968, 60% of southern schools had desegregated
What was one controversial method schools used to desegregated?
🐎 🎀 𝐵𝓊𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 🎀 🐎
Why did people object to Bussing?
Didn’t want their children to travel across town or OBJECTED to to mixed-race education
What was an effect of Bussing?
White families moving out of urban areas to avoid their children being educated alongside AA children
What did Nixon do for civil rights?
Not much, he was less active in reducing the funding in schools that weren’t complicit with integration
What do the NAACP continue to do?
Challenge districts where schools refused or were slow in integrating by taking them to court
When did the NAACP take their case to court?what was their case?
The case of 𝑺𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝒗𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆-𝑴𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 BOE in 1971 to the supreme court
What did the SC rule in the 𝑺𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝒗𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆-𝑴𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 case?
decided bussing was allowed
What negative thing did Nixon to regarding civil rights?
Spoke against bussing tried to get the ruling overturned
What was another supreme court ruling?
In the 1974 case of 𝑀𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐼𝒦𝐸𝒩 𝓋𝓈 𝐵𝑅𝒜𝒟𝐿𝐸𝒴 SC ruled
Bussing only allowed segregation was deliberate and was not allowed across different school districts
What was the effect of the 1974 ruling in the 𝑀𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐼𝒦𝐸𝒩 𝓋𝓈 𝐵𝑅𝒜𝒟𝐿𝐸𝒴 case?
Schools in white areas that was a district away from black areas didn’t have to integrate
—)by end of 1974 bussing declined and integration of southern schools dropped 40 PERCENT
