How busing, school desegregation shaped Kamala Harris’s views of race

Kamala Harris, the first African American and South Asian female Vice President of the United States, was deeply shaped by busing and school desegregation issues throughout her life. Starting from her early childhood in Berkeley, California, she is directly a product of busing, an effort designed to achieve integration and equal opportunity in schools.

Berkeley’s school district was one of the first in the country to carry out a large-scale plan to desegregate its schools through busing. Kamala