Reddit reviews To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880

> If you could explain how supplying school buses to students is a negative thing, even if it was started due to desegregation, I would appreciate it. I'm not asserting that it isn't, I just fail to see it.

Okay, essentially after the Supreme Court handed down Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 there was a great deal of uproar as school districts found themselves newly unable to segregate schools by race by law or policy; there was a great deal of racist backlash against the implementation of SCOTUS' vision in Brown, i.e. that black and white students receive education in the same classrooms. The backlash took many forms as white school district and elected officials scrambled to find ways to obstruct the courts and maintain de facto segregation. By the late 60s and early 70s, the courts had become exasperated with the lack of progress in ending de facto segregation and began forcing school districts into more systematic schemes to achieve educational integration. Often these schemes involved requiring each individual school in a district to maintain a demographic balance that reflected the racial demographics of the school district as a whole. This resulted in students being assigned to schools on the other side of the district, and they would have to get there by bus. Opposition to busing was two parts. There was upset that white children were being reassigned to geographically closer schools to ones farther away. A great deal of the backlash, however, was whites angry that black students were establishing a presence in schools that were, until then, exclusively white schools. Black parents, on the whole, were pleased to have an opportunity to send their children to qualitatively better schools, and black bused students had better outcomes.

> States rights is NOT a legal justification to Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional

Yes, because there was a series of federal legislation and judicial decisions through the middle of the last century that overturned previous precident and drumroll took away a state's right to enforce Jim Crow laws.

> I've admitted the areas in which I'm ignorant. I am completely open to other points of views, you have simply failed to provide any.

Look, real talk here. If you're an adult, it's no one's job to educate you. It's your job to educate yourself. And in any event you shouldn't be learning your historical facts from dubious strangers on Reddit, especially not one that is of such moral and social import as race and racism. Watch some documentaries about the Civil Rights movement on Netflix or youtube (ones produced by reputable people). Visit a civil rights museum. Read some books. I recommend reading two books concurrently, one a history of race in America (like this) and the other a collection of source texts (I recommend this one). Knowledge of the past should shape how you understand the present.