Click2History - SCHOOL BUSING - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>SCHOOL BUSING</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="school_busing_ch1.htm" target="_blank"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch2.htm">2. LITTLE ROCK PROTESTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch3.htm">3. "WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch4.htm">4. ANTI-BUSING PROTESTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch5.htm">5. SCHOOLS IN TURMOIL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch6.htm">6. SCHOOL BUSING UPHELD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="school_busing_ch7.htm">7. SCHOOL BUSING AN ISSUE AGAIN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">Today’s objective is to eliminate from the<br> public schools all vestiges of state-imposed<br> segregation...</b></i><br><br> United States Supreme Court<br> <i>Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg</i><br> Board of Education<br><br> April, 1971<br><br></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Dr. Darius Swann, professor of theology, was upset. He wanted his son James to attend the nearby predominately white school - not the predominately black school located miles away. After all, the United States Supreme Court had ruled America’s "<a href="http://www.lawbuzz.com/can_you/plessy/plessy.htm" target="_blank"><b>separate but equal</b></a>" schools were unconstitutional. </p> <p>But the path to equal education has never been easy. Nine black students in Little Rock, Arkansas learned that truth first-hand during the fall of 1957.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="school_busing_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>