- Desegregation benefited Black children and also enhanced civic capacity.
- The civic capacity resulting from Charlotte’s desegregation accomplishments did more to help Charlotte grow than to benefit African Americans or to strengthen public education.
- Data from Charlotte indicate that desegregation is associated with improved short-term academic outcomes from African American students. The same statement can be made about long-term outcomes.
- Busing and desegregation in Charlotte directly affected Charlotte’s public housing program.
- All civic leaders, scholars, and journalists who reflect on desegregation in Charlotte have reflected on the link between local growth and school desegregation, although quantitative comparisons before and after Swann is impossible.
- Desegregation also lead to the switch to district representation on the Charlotte city council in 1977, leading to greater geographical equality in the dispersion of some resources, most notably medical emergency services.
- Switch to district representation also helped facilitate the expansion of Charlotte’s airport, which resulted in large economic growth.
- No evidence that CMS’s preoccupation with desegregation distracted attention from more fundamental issues such as improving academic achievement.
- Racial hegemony brought on by busing contributed to Charlotte’s boom. Its effects on the black/white economic gap were uneven and more ambiguous.