Just Trying to Have School : The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi /
"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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2018]
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Table des matières:
- 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.


