In Boston's white, working-class Charlestown neighborhood, hundreds of mothers, many with small children, chanted: "Over there, over there, the kids aren't going over there." Just outside Louisville, 1,500 people attended a Ku Klux Klan cross burning one night, and 6,000 shouted "Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!" at a protest rally.
The outward signs of opposition to busing in both cities, where black and white pupils are bused out of their neighborhoods under court-ordered desegregation plans, are still as strong as ever (TIME, Sept. 22). So many stayed out of Boston schools last week that for the...
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