Can anyone seriously contend that, to uphold and enforce the constitutional right of Negro students to equal protection, they must be uprooted and forced to travel against their own wishes-by foot or by bus-away from their own neighborhood schools and to some distant school, merely that they may attend classes with white children? How utterly nonsensical have the courts become?
Opposing court-ordered busing for school integration.
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