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Online-Ressource (301 p.)
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9781934110744
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Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State, from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration. For The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Charles C. Bolton mines newspaper accounts, interviews, journals, archival records, legal and financial documents, and other sources to uncover the complex story of one of Mississippi's most significant and vexing issues. This history closely examines specific events--the after-math of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the 1966 protests and counter-demonstrations in Grenada, and the effor
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: TOO MANY SCHOOLS, TOO LITTLE MONEY: Mississippi's Dual Education System, 1870-1940; CHAPTER TWO: A LAST GASP TO MAINTAIN A SEGREGATED SYSTEM: Mississippi's Failed Effort to Make Separate Education Truly Equal; CHAPTER THREE: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING BUT DELIBERATE SPEED: The Aftermath of Brown in Mississippi; CHAPTER FOUR: THE CRACK IN THE WALL: School Desegregation Begins; CHAPTER FIVE: FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR WHITES: Massive Resistance by Another Name
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CHAPTER SIX: FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR BLACKS: "Very Little Choice and No Freedom at All"CHAPTER SEVEN: SCHOOL INTEGRATION: We Do Not Want Our Children Going to School with Yours; CHAPTER EIGHT: SCHOOL INTEGRATION: A Pyrrhic Victory?; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
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ISBN 9781604730609
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ISBN 9781934110744
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Hardest Deal of All : The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
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Englisch
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