In 1982 civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized President Ronald Reagan's attacks on busing to coerce school desegregation for targeting "not the bus, but us." Two decades later, the United States Supreme Court ended the thirty-two-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, plan which had launched the era of court-ordered busing…

Interrogates the record of George Bush, Sr. regarding his legacy on civil rights and school desegregation, discussing school desegregation and busing, his administration's challenge to busing, change and continuity in his administration's school desegregation policies, and the emergence of Hispanic education as an issue. The paper concludes that…