The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 /
Bolton, Charles C.
The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / Charles C. Bolton. - 1st ed. - Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005. - xxii, 278 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-268) and index.
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?
1578067170 (cloth : alk. paper)
2005004454
School integration--Mississippi.
Segregation in education--Mississippi.
African Americans--Education--Mississippi.
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Mississippi.
LC214.22.M7 / B65 2005
379.2/63/09762
The hardest deal of all : the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / Charles C. Bolton. - 1st ed. - Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005. - xxii, 278 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-268) and index.
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?
1578067170 (cloth : alk. paper)
2005004454
School integration--Mississippi.
Segregation in education--Mississippi.
African Americans--Education--Mississippi.
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Mississippi.
LC214.22.M7 / B65 2005
379.2/63/09762