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  • adjective US, politics Opposing the use of busing to achieve racial integration in schools

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anti- +‎ busing

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Examples

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I was in the progressive wing of the Senate, and we had used filibusters periodically to stop some of the excesses of the Nixon administration and to kill ill-considered antibusing legislation when the country was in a panicky backlash against school integration.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • In the company of parents who shared her concern, she started a group called BUSTOP, which quickly mushroomed into a citywide antibusing crusade.

    Bobbi Fiedler. 2009

  • Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler began her political career in an antibusing crusade.

    Bobbi Fiedler. 2009

  • White, a Democrat, was elected Massachusetts secretary of state three times before running for mayor for the first time in 1967 against antibusing activist Louise Day Hicks.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • White, a Democrat, was elected Massachusetts secretary of state three times before running for mayor for the first time in 1967 against antibusing activist Louise Day Hicks.

    News 2012

  • Boston antibusing activist Louise Day Hicks died at age 87.

    WTOP / Business / Biz Stories 2008

  • Boston antibusing activist Louise Day Hicks died at age

    Home News Tribune - News 2008

  • Boston antibusing activist Louise Day Hicks died at age

    WTOP / Business / Biz Stories 2008

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