Matthew F. Delmont - Why Busing Failed

I am fortunate to have received encouragement from family, friends, mentors, and colleagues for as long as I can remember. My mom, Diane Delmont, did an amazing job of raising me, and I am eternally thankful for her love and support. After researching this book, I also appreciate the work she did to navigate the open enrollment system in Minneapolis and the fact that she drove me to Burroughs Elementary School every day.

Thank you also to Frank Bowman, Bobbie and Lindy Stoltz, Katie Stoltz, Leari Jean and Jewel Anderson, and my late grandmother Kaye Henrikson, for their love and support.

Ive found at Arizona State University a wonderful place to teach history and American studies. Thank you to Matt Garcia, Desiree Garcia, Bambi Haggins, Aaron Bae, Karen Leong, Calvin Schermerhorn, Michael Stancliff, Mark Tebeau, Chris Jones, Sujey Vega, Rudy Guevarra, Brianna Theobald, Lee Bebout, Don Fixico, Victoria Thompson, Don Critchlow, Gayle Gullet, Lauren Harris, Laurie Manchester, Anna Holian, Pen Moon, Catherine ODonnell, Katherine Osburn, Jim Rush, Paul Hirt, Phil Vandermeer, and my other colleagues in history and American studies at Arizona State University for discussing my research and helping me strengthen my arguments. Thank you to Alexus Stewart and Corrigan Vaughan for working as research assistants on this project.

Thank you to Dean George Justice, Dean Patrick Kenney, Provost Mark Searle, and President Michael Crow for welcoming me to Arizona State University and for supporting my research.

Niels Hooper, my editor at University of California Press, supported this project from the earliest proposal and encouraged me to frame the book more broadly. Thank you to Bradley Depew and Rachel Berchten for guiding this book through production and to Elizabeth Berg for her careful copy editing. Thank you to Cynthia Savage for preparing the books index. And thank you to Alex Dahne, Elizabeth Shreve, and Kate Pinnick for publicizing the book.

This project started at Scripps College, where I was also fortunate to have excellent colleagues and students. Thanks to Julie Liss, Rita Roberts, Sheila Walker, Bill Anthes, Nancy Neiman Auerbach, Hal Barron, Stu McConnell, Lily Geismer, Damien Sojoyner, Chris Guzaitis, Frances Pohl, Dan Segal, Diana Selig, Victor Silverman, and Claudia Strauss for their collegiality and support. This research benefited from research support at Scripps, for which I would like to thank Dean Amy MarcusNewhall, Associate Dean Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, and former President Lori Bettison-Varga. Thank you also to the Scripps students who worked with me as research assistants on this project: Theresa Iker, Jessica Warren, Laurel Schwartz, Emily Horne, Faye Jones, Laura Kent, Ann Kirkpatrick, Alexa Kopelman, Elizabeth McElvein, Kaitlin Morris, Aly Monroe, Claire Pompetti, Laura Rossiter, Ariel Saland, Elisabeth Salzberg, and Colleen Syms.

Thank you to Ed Oetting and Bee Gallegos at ASU library for helping me track down important sources. Thank you to the archivists, librarians, and staff members at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, University of Georgia Peabody Awards Collection, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and State of Florida Archives. Thank you to the Center on the American Governor, Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University for grant support.

This book has benefited immensely from the feedback of colleagues who read rough drafts of the chapters or heard conference presentations. Jeanne Theoharis, George Lipsitz, and an anonymous reader for University of California Press encouraged me to expand the books scope and to deepen my analysis. Thanks also to Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Phil Ethington, Gillian Frank, Herman Gray, Matthew Lassiter, Victoria Johnson, Lynne Joyrich, Allison Perlman, and Gayle Wald, for offering useful suggestions in different venues.

Thanks to my friends from the Jackal club: Shawn Anderson, Tim Arnold, Victor Danh, Jessie Davis, Jake Ewart, Kara Hughes, Jake Lentz, Ken Miller, and Cabral Williams.

Thank you to Marcia Chatlain and Mario Sifuentez for being friends since graduate school. Seeing you at the American Studies Association conference each fall is one my favorite things about this profession.

Finally, thank you to Jacque Wernimont, Xavier, and Simone for their love.