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Lines were drawn : remembering court-ordered integration at a Mississippi high school /
"Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other research, this group memoir considers how the students, despite their markedly different backg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Authors' Note
- Preface
- What We Did
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How This Book Came to Be
- Childhood Memories of Mississippi: We Knew Something Was Coming
- The Historical Context of Radical Desegregation in Jackson, Mississippi
- Introduction to Integration: December 1969 through May 1970
- The Holding Pens: Holding on to Segregation at Private Schools
- The Experiment: The 1970-1971 Academic Year and Other Pre-Murrah Experiences
- Home Life and Mixing of the Races
- Teachers at Murrah
- Common Ground: Murrah Sports and Traditions
- School Spirit: The Murrah Cheerleaders, Misses, Band, Pep Rallies, and Homecoming
- One Wild Night
- Life Lessons of the Murrah Experience
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Questionnaire Sent to Classmates
- Index.