Title A new day in the Delta : inventing school desegregation as you go / David W. Beckwith.

Publication Info.	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Summary	A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippi's long-deferred school d.
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Subject	Beckwith, David W.
	Beckwith, David W.
	Beckwith, David W.
	Teachers -- United States -- Biography.
	Teachers.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Teachers, White -- Mississippi -- Leland.
	Teachers, White.
	Mississippi -- Leland.
	Faculty integration -- Mississippi -- Leland.
	Faculty integration.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Beckwith, David W. New day in the Delta. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008025567
ISBN	9780817381103 (electronic book)
	0817381104 (electronic book)
	9780817316334 (cloth ; alkaline paper)