Bustop campaign collection, 1928-1988.

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Bustop campaign collection, 1928-1988.

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Bustop was organized in 1976 by group of San Fernando Valley parents opposed to the use of mandatory busing to achieve school integration. Its purpose was to defeat Los Angeles Unified School district (LAUSD) plans for the busing of thousand of elementary, middle and high school students in the San Fernando Valley. In 1963, an injunction was sought to desegregate two Los Angeles high schools, one predominantly white, and the other black. In 1966, a class action lawsuit was filed in 1966 on behalf of Mary Ellen Crawford, a student at the black school named in the previous injunction. The suit sought desegregation of Los Angeles public schools. In court hearings that ended in 1970, the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that integration was indeed necessary to correct racial imbalances. The court's decision called for the LAUSD to present a school integration plan. Through the next few years the case was appealed through several courts including the state Supreme Court and the Los Angeles Superior Court. The LAUSD was again told to present a school integration plan in 1977. Bustop became one of the four interveners in the case at this point and was given the power to call witnesses and present evidence in the ongoing Mary Ellen Crawford case. For the next two years, proposed integration plans were heard and rejected. By early 1979, state Senator Alan Robbins submitted a state constitutional amendment to lock forced busing; it passed the State Assembly and Senate and was put on the November ballot as Proposition 1. The proposition was approved by California voters and by the following July, the LAUSD adopted an "all-voluntary" busing plan. Important personalities include: Robert L. Crain, Mary Ellen Crawford, Paul Egly, Bobbi Fiedler, Alan Robbins, Cliff Fridkis and Alfred Getelson. Part I consists of predominantly court documents, news clippings and the Los Angeles Unified School District integration plans from 1961-1981. The collection also contains a large set of newspaper clippings. The coverage focuses on the anti-busing movement, court decisions, integrations plans, Proposition 1, school boycotts and the "white-flight" reaction. Part I also includes a large quantity of raw Los Angeles Unified School District statistical research data consisting of bus routing sheets, budget summaries, enrollment figures, racial and ethnic surveys and like materials. Part II of the collection is predominantly concerned with 1962-1982. This collection includes legal case files consisting of pleadings, exhibits, witness depositions, reports, and related legal documents pertaining to the Superior Court, Court of Appeals, State and U.S. Supreme Courts. Part II also includes the court case of Mary Ellen Crawford vs. Los Angeles School Board.

86 ms boxes (43 linear ft.) 5 oversize maps + 17 photographs.

California State University, Northridge

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SNAC Resource ID: 6934622

California State University, Northridge

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Egly, Paul

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Judge Paul Egly presided over the case of Crawford, etc. et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles. From the description of Papers, 1977-1981. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 319971822 Biography Judge Paul Egly presided over the case of Crawford, etc. et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles. From the guide to the Paul Egly Papers, 1977-1981, (Universit...

Bustop (Organization)

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Fiedler, Bobbi, 1937-2019

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Roberta Frances "Bobbi" Fiedler (née Horowitz; April 22, 1937 – March 3, 2019) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. Representative from California from 1981 to 1987. Born Roberta Frances Horowitz in Santa Monica, California, she graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1955 before attending Santa Monica Technical School and Santa Monica City College through 1959. During the 1960s, she and her husband owned and operated two pharmacies in the San ...

Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Education

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Robbins, Alan, 1943-

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Real Parties in Interest.

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Crawford, Mary Ellen

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Integration Project.

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United Teachers Los Angeles.

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Better Education for Students Today (BEST)

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Fridkis, Cliff, 1947-

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Crain, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1934-

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Los Angeles Unified School District

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Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. was a case in which the California Supreme Court ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to formulate a feasible plan to desegregate its schools. In 1977 the LAUSD came up with a plan that was later deemed one of if not the most drastic plans of mandatory student reassignment in the nation. The board proposed a desegregation busing plan which would be implemented in 1978. In response to the proposal the group Bustop ...

Getelson, Alfred.

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