Boom for Whom?: Education, Desegregation, and Development in Charlotte

Explores political and educational aspects of Charlotte's nationally praised school desegregation efforts.

Bringing a new perspective to Charlotte's landmark school desegregation efforts, Stephen Samuel Smith provides a multi-faceted history of the nationally praised mandatory busing plan and the court battle that led to its ultimate demise. Although both black and white children benefited from busing, its most ongoing consequences were not educational, but the political and economic ones th...