Chapter Five: The effects of Plan Z busing roll across Memphis
Waiting for the school bus at Manchester and Ball Roads on the first day of Plan Z busing in 1973. The bus stop was close to Alcy Elementary School. (Courtesy Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries)
The latest chapter in The Daily Memphian’s oral history on the 50th anniversary of busing in Memphis City Schools moves into the years of the late 1970s and early 80s.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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