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Children boarding school bus on the first day of busing in Detroit, January 26, 1976. Desegregation was often a delicate topic in Detroit, even after the civil rights movement, and no topic stirred more contention than the integration of public schools. The busing debate took hold in Detroit in 1970 after the NAACP filed suit against the city school system claiming that Detroit Public Schools were still segregated. The discussion continued on for five more years, until finally, in 1976, a desegregation plan was put into effect. Children were bused to new schools, but by this time there were not enough white students left in the district to fulfill the original plan. |
