Despite great resistance in Charlotte to the busing order in the early days, the city boomed after the last schools had been integrated in 1975.

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Busing began in Denver in 1974 when a federal judge ordered the city to desegregate its schools.

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Until such ideas win more support, advocates of busing in Charlotte fear that a court ruling ending compulsory busing would toss aside years of desegregation efforts, and inner-city schools would become jammed with poor children, most of them black.

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