Excerpt from Ione Malloy's Account of the Conflict over Busing in Boston, 1965
The number of troopers in the building was increased instead of decreased, contrary to what the troopers had anticipated Friday when I talked to them. The two black boys— Martin and Jeffrey—and one white girl, Kathryn, were present in my homeroom today. Expecting a boycott, I was surprised to see any white students in school until I learned that a walkout of white students was anticipated at 9:45 A.M., when the parents, now gathering on the sidewalk, planned to walk in to protest the presence of steel combs in the school. Walkers (or white students) were permitted to leave by the side doors, if they preferred, so as not to be identified and, perhaps, intimidated by the now divided community. In South Boston families once friends are now enemies, since half support the antibusing boycott and the other half feel they have to educate their children.
Use the excerpt about busing in Boston to answer the question.
The parental response Malloy describes illustrates political debates about which of the following issues in postwar United States?
A.
prayer in school
B.
funding for education
C.
desegregation of schools
D.
separation of church and state