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Sources of the African American Past
This history closely examines specific eventsâthe aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in the state, the 1966 protests and counter-demonstrations in Grenada, and the efforts of particular organizationsâand carefully considers the broader picture. The stateâs white and black public schools are given equal attention, as are the range of attitudes about integration amongst white and black Mississippians. The book also details the effects of desegregation on black communities and white private school attendance.
Despite a "separate but equal" doctrine established in the late nineteenth century, the stateâs racially divided school systems quickly developed vast differences in terms of financing, academic resources, teacher salaries, and quality of education. As one of the nationâs poorest states, Mississippi could not afford to finance one school system adequately, much less two. For much of the twentieth century, whites fought hard to preserve the dual school system, in which the maintenance of one-race schools became the most important measure of educational quality. Blacks fought equally hard to end segregated schooling, realizing that their schools would remain underfunded and understaffed as long as they were not integrated.
About: Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration.
About: The history of the state's struggle to desegregate its schools
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