In this NPR 1A Podcast, National Center for Law and Economic Justice Executive Director Dennis D. Parker and Pennsylvania State Professor Erica Frankenberg discuss the history of discrimination and exclusion that resulted in the use of busing to desegregate schools and the ways that persistent segregation in education and housing limit opportunities for social and economic advancement of all students.

https://the1a.org/shows/2019-07-09/the-fight-over-busing-and-school-desegregation

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