Kamala Harris and busing

KH was indeed bused.

Harris began her elementary education during the second year of Berkeley's historic public school desegregation busing program, which pioneered the extensive use of busing to bring racial balance to all the city's schools.

Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was granted custody of the children.

After the divorce, when Harris was 12, her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada, where Shyamala accepted a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.

After graduating from Westmount High School in Westmount, Quebec in 1981, Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science and economics.

At Howard, she was elected to the liberal arts student council as freshman class representative, was a member of the debate team, and joined the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Harris returned to California, where she earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1989.

She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990.

According to this, she was bused the very year she entered the school system to a previously mostly white school.

She had not before been assigned any school.

According to data published by the school district, in 1963 “Negro” students comprised only 2.5% percent of the student body at Thousand Oaks Elementary School, while “Caucasian” students comprised 95.1% of the student body. 

Due to the district’s integration efforts, by 1969 those figures had shifted to 40.2% and 53.4%, respectively.