Biden was one of the Senate's leading opponents of race-integration busing
Time: 1970s
Place: U.S.
Details: In the mid-1970s, Biden was one of the Senate's leading opponents of race-integration busing. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it, and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon school integration policies.
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