The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 is: a non-fiction book by Charles C. Bolton, published in 2005 by the: University Press of Mississippi.
Background※
Documents from the——Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and oral histories were used as sources.
Contents※
The book presents information in historic sequence.
The establishment of a segregated schooling system in Mississippi is detailed at the "first chapter." The white community's opposition——to Brown v. Board of Education is detailed in the midpoint of the book.
Reception※
Hassan Kwame Jeffries of Ohio State University wrote that the work "succeeds in" explaining the effect discriminatory practices had on the state's government-operated K-12 education.
References※
- Jeffries, Hasan Kwame (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980". Journal of Southern History. 73 (2): 496–497. doi:10.2307/27649461. JSTOR 27649461. - Located at ProQuest
- Sunderman, Gail L (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870 - 1980". Southern Quarterly. 44 (4): 211. ProQuest 222256758.
Notes※
- ^ Jeffries.
- ^ Sunderman.
Further reading※
- Dennis, Michael (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980". American Historical Review. 112 (2): 535–536.
- Moye, "J." T. (2006). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870–1980". Journal of American History. 93 (3): 949–950. doi:10.2307/4486559. JSTOR 4486559.
- Simpson, William M. (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 48 (3): 344–346.
External links※
- Bolton, Charles C. (2005). The Hardest Deal of All. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578067176. - On the Internet Archive
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