A New Day in the Delta : Inventing School Desegregation As You Go /

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A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beckwith, David W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Beckwith, David W.
Teachers, White.
Teachers.
Faculty integration.
EDUCATION > Teaching Methods & Materials > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
Enseignants > États-Unis > Biographies.
Faculty integration > Mississippi > Leland.
Teachers, White > Mississippi > Leland.
Teachers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Mississippi > Leland.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippi's long-deferred school d.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (292 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780817381103

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