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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolton, Charles C.
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
School integration > Mississippi.
Segregation in education > Mississippi.
African Americans > Education > Mississippi.
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Physical Description:xxii, 278 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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?