By Tracy E. K'Meyer
ISBN-10: 1469607085
ISBN-13: 9781469607085
ISBN-10: 1469627256
ISBN-13: 9781469627250
K'Meyer chronicles the neighborhood reaction to Brown v. Board of Education in 1956 and describes the beginning of countywide busing in 1975 in addition to the trouble sparked by means of violent competition to it. She finds the forgotten tale of the protection of integration and busing reforms within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, culminating within the reaction to the 2007 preferrred court docket choice often called Meredith. This lengthy and multifaceted fight for college desegregation, K'Meyer exhibits, informs the continued circulation for social justice in Louisville and beyond.
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