At the End of the Bus Ride: A Teacher's Tale is an inside view of school desegregation in the districts where Janet Morgan taught over a period of two and a half decades. Morgan sheds a stark and chilling light on how black students and educators fared when the bus ride came to an end, and they walked into a new and sometimes hostile environment.
With wit and poetry, Morgan artfully shares stories and anecdotes filled with the comedy, tragedy, and absurdities of race that found their way into the school with bombast. The most hopeful and inspiring pieces of the story came from interactions with students.
Drawn into the controversy, as a social studies teacher, around racial comments Jimmy the (Greek) Snyder made about black athletes, and his firing by CBS, Janet Morgan endured a lengthy suspension from her teaching position but distinguished herself as the teacher solely responsible for the establishment of an Academic Freedom standard for public school teachers in New York state.