Bolton, Charles C. <br/><br/>
The hardest deal of all :  the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 / 
Charles C. Bolton. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Jackson, MS :  University Press of Mississippi,  2005. 
 - xxii, 278 p. :  maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>Too many schools, too little money : Mississippi's dual education system, 1870-1940 -- A last gasp to maintain a segregated system : Mississippi's failed effort to make separate education truly equal -- Years of nothing but deliberate speed : the aftermath of Brown in Mississippi -- The crack in the wall : school desegregation begins -- Freedom of choice for whites : massive resistance by another name -- Freedom of choice for blacks : "very little choice and no freedom at all" -- School integration : we do not want our children going to school with yours -- School integration : a pyrrhic victory? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1578067170 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005004454 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>School integration--Mississippi.<br/>Segregation in education--Mississippi.<br/>African Americans--Education--Mississippi.<br/>School integration--Massive resistance movement--Mississippi.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC214.22.M7  / B65 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.2/63/09762