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

by Natalie G Adams and James H Adams

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 unitary schools."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496819535
• ISBN13: 9781496819536
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"