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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Natalie G. Adams, James H. AdamsPublish date:2018-10-09Pages:314
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496819543ISBN-10:1496819543UPC:9781496819543Book Category:Social Science, History, EducationBook Subcategory:Discrimination, United States, HistoryBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCT60Y34HR

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 of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496819543ISBN-10:1496819543UPC:9781496819543Book Category:Social Science, History, EducationBook Subcategory:Discrimination, United States, HistoryBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCT60Y34HR
Natalie Guice Adams is director of New College and professor of social and cultural studies in education at The University of Alabama. She is coauthor of Cheerleader!: An American Icon and coeditor of Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between. She has published in Girlhood Studies and Critical Studies of Southern Place. James H. Adams (1955-2021) was professor of instructional systems and...
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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