Jesse Jackson: Biden on ‘the wrong side of history’ on busing

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Jesse Jackson criticized Joe Biden’s opposition to federally mandated school busing in the 1970s, hours before the two were scheduled to appear at an event together.

“My judgment is it was the wrong side of history,” Jackson, 77, an activist on racial issue for five decades, said Friday shortly before the hastily-arranged meeting.

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