The Hardest Deal of All

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 in historic sequence. ^[1]

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. ^[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 ]

^ ^a ^b ^c Jeffries.
^ Sunderman.

External links [ edit ]

Bolton, Charles C. (2005). The Hardest Deal of All . University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578067176 . - On the Internet Archive

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