The Hardest Deal of All

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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[edit]

Documents from the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and oral histories were used as sources.[1]

Contents[edit]

The book presents information by historic sequence.[1]

The establishment of a segregated schooling system in Mississippi is detailed in the first chapter. The white community's opposition to Brown v. Board of Education is detailed in the midpoint of the book.[2]

Reception[edit]

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.[1]

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Jeffries.
  2. ^ Sunderman.

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