The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / Charles C. Bolton.
Title:
The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / Charles C. Bolton.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Publication Date:
2005
ISBN:
9781578067176
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-268) and index.
Contents:
Too many schools, too little money : Mississippi's dual education system, 1870-1940 -- A last gasp to maintain a segregated system : Mississippi's failed effort to make separate education truly equal -- Ten years of nothing but deliberate speed : the aftermath of Brown in Mississippi -- The crack in the wall : school desegregation begins -- Freedom of choice for whites : massive resistance by another name -- Freedom of choice for blacks : "very little choice and no freedom at all" -- School integration : we do not want our children going to school with yours -- School integration : a pyrrhic victory?
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Local Note:
MUW--Copy 2 gift of Dr. Bridget S. Pieschel.
MSU--Gift of Dr. Dennis J. Mitchell.
MUW--Copy 2 - Dr. Bridget S. Pieschel Collection.
Language:
English
Subject:
