Chapter Four: Busing’s turbulent first year comes to a close
Teacher Wanda Hutton with two students days before the start of the 1973-1974 school year and the start of Plan Z busing in Memphis City Schools. (Courtesy Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries)
Memories of that first year under Plan Z still linger for those who lived through it.
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