antibusing

or an·ti·bus·sing

[ an-tee-buhs-ing, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. opposing legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antibusing¹

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; anti- + busing

Example Sentences

He recalled walking to school through crowds of white residents who bellowed at him for violating the antibusing boycott, a daily gantlet that gave him stomachaches.

From New York Times

Though “Catching the Wind” ends in yet another crisis moment, as Kennedy is surrounded by seething antibusing protesters in Boston, there are hints of what is to come: the maturation of a flawed but estimable public servant, wise and dedicated and determined to build a legislative legacy that would endure.

From Washington Post

“Parents simply won’t stand to have their children shuttled around from school to school to please some extremists,” antibusing leader Rosemary R. Gunning told the New York Times in 1964.

From Washington Post

Doing so, however, would have required a yearlong effort to recast Biden as an antibusing and pro-incarceration senator who had previously advocated cuts in Social Security — and to target this message to African-Americans who might not be aware of the vice president’s record.

From New York Times

“I want you to know that I very much appreciate your help during this week’s Committee meeting in attempting to bring my antibusing legislation to a vote,” Biden wrote on June 30, 1977, to Sen. James Eastland, who had promised to stop whites and blacks from eating together in Washington and had once called African Americans “an inferior race.”

From Washington Post