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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1972
Page
4
Sacramento officials report Assemblyman Floyd Wakefield says about 150,000 signatures for an antibusing measure have been filed with county clerks. To qualify for November, 325,504 voter signatures are needed by June 49. The proposal would repeal a state law he says requires forced busing of students.
Fifteen marching mothers walked from Michigan and Virginia to deliver antibusing petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures to sympathetic congressmen on the Capitol steps. About 2,000 visitors joined in the rally urging a constitutional amendment to ban court-ordered busing to desegregate public schools.
In Memphis, more than 50,000 of the city's 144,236 public school students stay away Thursday to protest a federal court ordered bus desegregation set for next September. Officials report 43,518 white and 9,201 black students absent across 16 schools, while pickets form outside several campuses.
The United States on Thursday sought to intervene in a court ordered desegregation plan in Oklahoma City, filing a motion in the 10th Circuit to allow a friend of the court brief. It urges remanding to district court to decide if all black schools resulted from official segregation or shifting residential patterns.
The Black Panther Party endorsed Rep Shirley Chisholm for president calling on black, poor and progressive people nationwide to help elect her. Huey P. Newton announced the move in Black Panther newspaper and Bobby Seale echoed it at a news conference. Chisholm said the Panthers may be able to advance the hopes and aspirations of an oppressed group in America.
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