What Does Bussing Mean in History?

By Douglas DeWitt | View Edit History. Busing, also called desegregation busing, in the United States, the practice of transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts as a means of rectifying racial segregation.

What does bussing mean?

The definition of bussing, commonly spelled as busing, is transporting a group of people in a communal vehicle. An example of bussing is when school children are loaded into a vehicle and taken on a school trip.

What was busing and what was its purpose?

Race-integration busing in the United States (also known as simply busing or by its critics as forced busing) was the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools.

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