In 1971 the Supreme Court authorized busing as a desegregation remedy.

Evidence

Legally forced segregation became even more pertinent when in 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that busing could be used as a mode of desegregation in the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (Orfield 1983, 1). — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 6

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader American legal-history thread on court-ordered remedies and their political backlash.