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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