Northwest High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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.5 J- Y , it I Qt side of their normal g avoid the shift in amilies had the choice of enrolling in private September 1971. To moving to another school schools or not attending school at all. Attendance records at Attucks revealed that there were at least 400 absences daily during the first month of school as a re- sult of rebellious parents refusing to send their children to school. Supporters of thetintegration plan felt it could have easily worked if it had been backed by all the parents, and perhaps interpreted the actions of anti-busing par- ents as being preiudiced. Those who adhered to the principle of forced desegration stressed the idea of brotherhood to prevent situations similar to these from arising in future years. According to respected psychologists, young adults would gain respect for members of other races if they went through the learning process with them. Whites learn that not all would realize that they are not inferior in the minds of Most importantly, students are hostile and blacks their white classmates. would whole-heartedly believe that everyone is equal. This may have been the ultimate goal, but NHS parents such as Mrs. Marguerite A. Brown disagreed with the methods used to unite blacks and whites in the North- west area. . . . busing of white children will not undo the iniustice done to the blacks. Two wrongs do not make a right. She stressed that parents paid increased taxes to build schools in the immediate area for their children. Mrs. Brown added that several did so without any complications. Transporting students from Northwest to Attucks was an effort to promote brotherly relations between blacks and whites but due to opposition, the situation became a tense confrontation between parents and the school system. 31

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