Just Trying to Have School : The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi /

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"After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi. This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969 when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education that "the obligation...

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Main Authors: Adams, Natalie G. (Author), Adams, James Harold, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
School integration > Massive resistance movement.
School integration.
Educational equalization.
Discrimination in education.
African Americans > Education.
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Noirs americains > Éducation > Mississippi > Histoire.
Desegregation en education > Mouvement de resistance massive > Mississippi > Histoire.
Discrimination en education > Mississippi > Histoire.
Democratisation de l'enseignement > Mississippi > Histoire.
Desegregation en education > Mississippi > Histoire.
African Americans > Education > Mississippi > History.
School integration > Massive resistance movement > Mississippi > History.
Discrimination in education > Mississippi > History.
Educational equalization > Mississippi > History.
School integration > Mississippi > History.
Mississippi.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The daily work of doing Brown
  • With no deliberate speed: the road from Brown to Alexander
  • "A cruel and intolerable burden": black Mississippians and freedom of choice
  • Big bulls in the local herd: superintendents enforcing the law of the land
  • Weathering the storm: principals and local implementation
  • Love, hope, and fear: teachers guiding desegregation
  • "We all came together on the football field," but . . .: the role of sports in desegregation
  • "We never had a prom": social integration and the extracurricular
  • "Hell no, we won't go": protest and resistance to school desegregation
  • Resistance through exodus: private schools as a countermovement
  • Unfinished business: lessons learned through school desegregation.

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