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The North Carolina Supreme Court sustains the state’s policy of providing school buses for urban children involved in desegregation programs. A lower court had prohibited the use of state funds for busing.
1971 (Jan 20)
The North Carolina Supreme Court sustained the state's policy of providing school buses for urban children involved in desegregation programs. As long as state funds were used to transport children from rural areas to their schools, the court reasoned, city dwelling children must have the same rights. The ruling struck down a lower court's prohibition on the use of state funds for busing. In effect, the court's decision gave the state legislature the choice of continuing busing for all children who required it or discontinuing the practice altogether. An Assistant State Attorney General expressed the view that the court's decision could not be appealed because it did not involve any constitutional issue.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.