Black working-class families resisted one-way busing because it imposed integration unevenly

Evidence

The fiercest resistance came from working-class neighborhood organizations instead of the black middle-class establishment. More than twenty thousand black parents signed petitions against one-way busing and rallied behind the sentiments expressed by a mother named Beverly Ford: “If it [integration] is going to come, it’s going to come even-steven right down the line.” — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the complaint about color-blind rhetoric being deployed differently across class lines, relevant to the reader’s segregation-rebranding research. — connects to: Black working-class parents rejected one-way busing as unequal integration; Black communities and families resisted Spelman’s Victorian reform ideals as divisive — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 199; American racism fused Black people into one mass preventing internal class divisions

Broader Connections

• Black working-class parents rejected one-way busing as unequal integration #corroborates (0.98)
• American racism fused Black people into one mass preventing internal class divisions #complicates (0.75)
• Black communities and families resisted Spelman’s Victorian reform ideals as divisive #exemplifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 199