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Author Bolton, Charles C.

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

Publication Info. Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC214.22.M7 B65 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxii, 278 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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 -- 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?
Subject School integration -- Mississippi.
School integration.
Mississippi.
Segregation in education -- Mississippi.
Segregation in education.
African Americans -- Education -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Education.
School integration -- Massive resistance movement -- Mississippi.
School integration -- Massive resistance movement.
ISBN 1578067170 cloth alkaline paper
9781578067176 cloth alkaline paper