The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / Charles C. Bolton.

Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State, from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration. For The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Charles C. Bolton mines newspaper accounts, interviews, journals, archival records, legal and finan...

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Main Author: Bolton, Charles C.
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Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: TOO MANY SCHOOLS, TOO LITTLE MONEY: Mississippi's Dual Education System, 1870-1940; CHAPTER TWO: A LAST GASP TO MAINTAIN A SEGREGATED SYSTEM: Mississippi's Failed Effort to Make Separate Education Truly Equal; CHAPTER THREE: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING BUT DELIBERATE SPEED: The Aftermath of Brown in Mississippi; CHAPTER FOUR: THE CRACK IN THE WALL: School Desegregation Begins; CHAPTER FIVE: FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR WHITES: Massive Resistance by Another Name. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER SIX: FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR BLACKS: "Very Little Choice and No Freedom at All"CHAPTER SEVEN: SCHOOL INTEGRATION: We Do Not Want Our Children Going to School with Yours; CHAPTER EIGHT: SCHOOL INTEGRATION: A Pyrrhic Victory?; Epilogue; Notes; Index. 
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