The Busing Battleground

Name: The Busing Battleground
Genre: History, Documentary
Duration: 1 hr 53 min

"The decades-long road to school desegregation"Movie

DirectorsSharon GrimbergCyndee Readdean

WriterSharon Grimberg

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NR 1 hr 53 minHistory, Documentary

Plot

The Busing Battleground pulls back the curtain on the volatile effort to end school segregation, detailing the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. It illustrates how civil rights battles had to be fought across the North as well as the South and reckons with the class dimensions of the desegregation saga, exploring how the neighborhoods most impacted by the court’s order were the poorest in the city.

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