Education rally. Sign: “Bussing (sic) s a two way street.” The Seattle School District instituted mandatory busing in 1972 in an effort to reduce racial imbalance in the schools. However, many felt that busing created more of a hardship for minority students than for white students, and forced busing gradually fell out of favor in favor of magnet schoolsl and other incentives. Photo by Dean Wong; date unknown, perhaps early 1980s.
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