Today in History

1971 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of involuntary busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971). Resistance to desegregating public schools reminds me of resistance by Chicago and D.C., and some federal courts to Supreme Court decisions on the Second Amendment in Heller and McDonald