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t pjP Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Aprir T1, l?74 i^jg^I Strife At High School HSyTrRHrDKI Leaves Scars Like Busing Either , Iff; iillllli lltif When court-ordered busing to achieve racial balance in the public schools began on a massive scale a few years ago, most public attention was focused on the white reaction: protests by white parents, such as the one in Lamar, S. C., in which;SchooI buses were smashed with clubs and chains; the rise of the white private school in the South; arid the sudden political "respectability" of Alabama Gov. George Wallace north of theJVlason-Dix- on line. Overlooked was the black reaction, Perhaps it was assumed that most blacks favored busing; after all, hadn't the Greensboro NAACP taken the local school board to court in a case that ended in the busing order? But if a recent series of interviews at Grimsley High School is any indication, many black students resent busing as much as the most unrepentant redneck. Their frustration and anger recently erupted in a school disruption at Grimsley, and although busing was not one of the issues raised by the protesters, it simmers beneath those that were. Simply put, black students at Grimsley are bitter over their Dudley High School—Blacks Yearn To Go Back To 'Heritage' minority position. Many said" they would rather return to an •all-black or predominantly-black school where they would be in the majority and not be concerned about having enough black representation in student council, clubs, activities and social events. Listen to what some of them say: • A junior boy—"We don't even feel like we're here except: to go to school. We're shipped over here in the morning and back again in the evening. In between, we just come in here and sit and listen to the whites make their announcements and jazz about their clubs and things when we don't even know what's going on." • A sophomore girl—"Why can't we have something of our own. I don't care nothing about the clubs they have here now. We ought to have clubs of our own, black clubs. They were talking about forming a black modern dance, group here, but nothing even came of it. Nothing ever does if it's for us." • A senior boy—"They never should have started this busing. I live five blocks from Dudley, and I could walk to school, but I gotta get on that bus everyday and come all the way ovdRhere. They don't want me over here, and I don't want to be over here." I
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Full text | t pjP Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Aprir T1, l?74 i^jg^I Strife At High School HSyTrRHrDKI Leaves Scars Like Busing Either , Iff; iillllli lltif When court-ordered busing to achieve racial balance in the public schools began on a massive scale a few years ago, most public attention was focused on the white reaction: protests by white parents, such as the one in Lamar, S. C., in which;SchooI buses were smashed with clubs and chains; the rise of the white private school in the South; arid the sudden political "respectability" of Alabama Gov. George Wallace north of theJVlason-Dix- on line. Overlooked was the black reaction, Perhaps it was assumed that most blacks favored busing; after all, hadn't the Greensboro NAACP taken the local school board to court in a case that ended in the busing order? But if a recent series of interviews at Grimsley High School is any indication, many black students resent busing as much as the most unrepentant redneck. Their frustration and anger recently erupted in a school disruption at Grimsley, and although busing was not one of the issues raised by the protesters, it simmers beneath those that were. Simply put, black students at Grimsley are bitter over their Dudley High School—Blacks Yearn To Go Back To 'Heritage' minority position. Many said" they would rather return to an •all-black or predominantly-black school where they would be in the majority and not be concerned about having enough black representation in student council, clubs, activities and social events. Listen to what some of them say: • A junior boy—"We don't even feel like we're here except: to go to school. We're shipped over here in the morning and back again in the evening. In between, we just come in here and sit and listen to the whites make their announcements and jazz about their clubs and things when we don't even know what's going on." • A sophomore girl—"Why can't we have something of our own. I don't care nothing about the clubs they have here now. We ought to have clubs of our own, black clubs. They were talking about forming a black modern dance, group here, but nothing even came of it. Nothing ever does if it's for us." • A senior boy—"They never should have started this busing. I live five blocks from Dudley, and I could walk to school, but I gotta get on that bus everyday and come all the way ovdRhere. They don't want me over here, and I don't want to be over here." I |