The Boston Busing In 1970s In America

Once there exited the long and deep-rooted segregation system in the United States.In 1896,in the Plessy v.Ferguson Case,the Supreme Court announced the doctrine of "Segregation but equal" was constitutional,which means the segregation system obtained legal recognition;Hereafter,this system was established among the southern provinces and spread rapidly.Such situation continued until the year of 1954,the Supreme Court overturned the doctrine of "Segregation but equal",since then,the legal basis of racial segregation began to loose,and the process of desegregation,including the school desegregation,started.During the ten years after the Brown Case,the process of abolishing segregation in the public schools was to start in the South slowly.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Primary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 accelerated the process,which then basically achieved the racial balance in the public school system.After that,the segregation in the North began to become the focus.In the 1970s,the process of the abolition of segregation in public schools was gradually taken place in the North,and the compulsory school busing program was used in the North to achieve the racial balance of public schools.The compulsory school busing program was aimed at achieving racial balance in public schools by reworking school districts and redistributing students,which led to huge controversy and conflict through coercive means of increasing the contact between black and white students,the most representative of which was Boston's Compulsory School Busing Program.During the implement of force-busing,which accompanied by serious violence and racial conflict,that covered up the plan's sense of justice to some extent,even so,such plan still improved the racial relations of the Black and White,played an indelible role in the process of ease the racial conflict and desegregation system.