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Author Bolton, Charles C.

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

Imprint Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxii, 278 p. : maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject School integration -- Mississippi.
Segregation in education -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Education -- Mississippi.
Massive resistance (Southern states history, 1956-1964) -- Mississippi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1578067170 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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