[Ads-l] Antedating of "Busing" and "School Busing" (Desegregation)

[Shapiro, Fred]

busing, n. (OED, 1.b., 1960)  1957 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 28 Apr. 11/1 (GenealogyBank)  Tension is running high in some quarters about a broad-scale program to spur the mingling of races in New York City's mammoth public school system. ... Much of the dispute about the New York program has resolved around five words: "Selective use of bus transportation" ... "This busing of children will deprive them of community security," said attorney Max Lome of the Queens Federation of Civic Councils.

school busing (OED 1961)  1960 Michigan Chronicle 5 Nov. 6 (ProQuest)  The major communications media ... gave no indications that they would editorially support the members of the Board of Education who have been threatened with "recall" petititions because of their position in the school busing matter.

NOTE: Michigan Chronicle was a Black newspaper.

Fred Shapiro




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