The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolton, Charles C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Subjects:
Segregation in education > Mississippi.
African Americans > Education > Mississippi.
School integration > Massive resistance movement > Mississippi.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans > Education
School integration > Massive resistance movement
Segregation in education
Education.
Social Sciences.
Education, Special Topics.
Mississippi
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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