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Aidan Taylor

The Desegregation Bus on its Last Fumes

May 16, 2023 by Aidan Taylor

Image of a yellow school bus windshield.

Abdul-Kaba Abdullah was just six years old in 1984 when the school bus came to his grandmother’s house in St. Louis City’s Walnut Park neighborhood. Instead of taking him to the school down the street, it took him 25 miles away to Beasley Elementary School in South County at 3131 Koch Road (an address Abdullah […]

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