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The author recounts their experience as a white student bused to an inner-city Louisville school during desegregation 50 years ago.

While some Black students resented the integration, the author formed friendships and gained a new perspective on racial and educational inequities.

The experience shaped the author's worldview and career path, leading them to a career in journalism and public policy focused on social issues.

Fifty years ago, Louisville began its school desegregation efforts, then known as busing. I was a high school junior, 16, with a newly minted driver’s license and a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury with a self-installed CB radio and 8-track tape deck. And my last name began with “B,” which placed me into the A, B, F and Q group of White students who would

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