Students boarding a Wilcox County school bus in Gee's Bend, Alabama.
Starting in 1975, in compliance with a federal desegregation order, older students from Gee's Bend were bused almost 50 miles one-way to Pine Hill. White students soon left the public school there, effectively negating the integration attempt. In 1977, Gee's Bend residents filed an unsucce...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/122033 |
| Summary: | Starting in 1975, in compliance with a federal desegregation order, older students from Gee's Bend were bused almost 50 miles one-way to Pine Hill. White students soon left the public school there, effectively negating the integration attempt. In 1977, Gee's Bend residents filed an unsuccessful petition requesting that their original local school be expanded to once again serve all grades. Two years later, Orzell Billingsley Jr. filed a lawsuit at the federal district court in Mobile to request again that the busing be stopped. |
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