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In a Senate hearing, the legendary civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg had something to say to freshman Sen.

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Joe Biden. Greenberg, longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took Biden to task for sponsoring a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing. Board of Education case that ended legal school segregation 21 years earlier.

And according to Greenberg, Biden was the man with his hand on the brick. But political experts and education policy researchers say Biden, a supporter of civil rights in other arenas, did not simply compromise with segregationists — he also led the charge on an issue that kept black students away from the classrooms of white students.

On Saturday, Biden defended his work with segregationist senators in an interview with the Rev. After this article was originally published, Biden's national press secretary, Jamal Brown, emailed a statement saying that Biden was never opposed to integration, and in fact supported the concept.

But he said Biden opposed Delaware's busing methods, and included statements from black activists in Delaware who also opposed busing. InBiden was representing a state where one of the first major urban school desegregation plans had been ordered by a court. Many white parents in the Wilmington area were angry. The Ravial went beyond the busing issue, affecting school systems that effectively separated students by race whether or not they used busing. Co-sponsors included segregationist Sens.

Jesse Helms, R-N. The amendment passed the Senate on a vote, including majorities of both Democrats and Republicans. Biden was not alone among northern Democrats who supported it — in that group, 14 supported the amendment and 26 opposed it, according to the Congressional Quarterly. Two years click, he co-authored a bill that barred federal courts from ordering busing plans unless courts found evidence of discriminatory intent. That legislation failed. Federal data analyzed by Johnson and other researchers shows that busing succeeded in narrowing racial achievement gaps before frontal assaults and legislative maneuvers by Biden and others rendered it easier for districts under court order to be released from integration demands.

Johnson has reviewed data on more than 10, students from this period, who were studied for decades afterward. He found that black adults who spent the most time in integrated schools attained more education, completed college, maintained better health and earned higher incomes than peers who spent less time or no time Leder integrated schools. All of this happened without any reduction in white student grades or outcomes, the data shows.]