Reporter’s Notebook: Observations from Plan A, Plan Z maps
End of the first school year of Plan Z busing at Bellevue Junior High School, which was one of the first four Memphis City Schools integrated by a group if 13 children in 1961. (Courtesy Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries)
For the past several months, The Daily Memphian staff created maps, timelines, data visualizations and other interactive elements for the series about the 50th anniversary of busing. Here are some observations.
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