Jewish Labor Committee regional chairman Joseph B. Greenfield announced today that the committee will make a major effort to combat the use of the school busing question as a political issue during the election season. The committee has contacted Rep. Louise Day Hicks (D. Mass.), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, asking her to oppose all pending bills and constitutional amendments dealing with busing, he said. The committee is also in the process of completing a 500-piece mailing to key leaders of a new pamphlet titled “The Facts About Busing.” The pamphlet was prepared by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Greenfield noted that the basic issue involved in busing is “quality integrated education,” and that the committee is “unequivocally opposed to proposals which would interfere with the use of busing as a technique to achieve integration. We deplore the action of those who are turning America’s vital need for quality integrated education into a divisive political issue, and we fear the undermining of the civil rights progress of the past two decades,” he said.
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