The first and second waves of civil-rights activity--from Brown v. Board and

Little Rock, through Montgomery and Selma, to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts--had originated in, roughly speaking, the South, and Southerners of all stripes had been complaining that the North didn't practice what it preached. Enter Judge Arthur Garrity, with his angrily protested Boston busing decision. In defending the extension of civil-rights remedies to Northern de-facto segregation, Mr. Jordan speaks, often movingly, of his own upbringing under Jim Crow, and puts the busing question into context: "You know,... busing pursuant to court orders is only about 3 per cent of the kids bused ... [whereas] something like 40 per cent of the kids traditionally have been bused in this country. I mean, busing is as American as apple pie or Yale or Harvard or Howard. And it never became a great issue until such time that somebody who had this kind of skin sat on that bus...." WFB: "Yes. If you took, let's say, a busload of Bostonians and insisted that they be driven 45 miles a day to Groton and back ... they probably wouldn't complain that much."