My family moved away from Wichita when I was entering into the eighth grade. We only moved 20 miles to our east to a small town called Rose Hill, Kansas, but it seemed like a lifetime away. This small little farming town had not been forced to desegregate its students. Everyone here was white, upper class and spoiled. Nobody had any idea about other cultures or races. Wichita was considered forbidden territory by all the so called superior parents. It took me a few years to feel even a bit accepted here. Even though I resembled there class I was still an outsider.

The differences between these two schools where outlandish. With no cultural differences being accepted, Rose Hill had no idea what it was like in a culturally diverse society. Parents and community leaders in this area deemed certain mainstream music and ideas as intolerable. Being different here catapulted a person into social unacceptability. Even the local community police held biases towards anyone who was not......

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Title: Forced Busing
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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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