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"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.
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
The Board-appointed State Superintendent of Education, sets public education policy and oversees the Mississippi Department of Education. Section 201 of the Mississippi Constitution states that the Mississippi Governor shall appoint one member from Mississippi's Northern Supreme Court district, one member from Mississippi's Central Supreme ...
The Mississippi Delta region. The Mississippi Delta region has had the most segregated schools—and for the longest time—of any part of the United States.As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American.
Her family eventually moved to New Orleans, where on Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, initiating the desegregation of public education in that city.
Mississippi First, a political group in favor of education and governmental reform, recruited candidates to challenge incumbent legislators who had voted against the Education Reform Act. [30] Senator Bodron lost reelection, as did longtime legislative incumbents Stone Barefield , Son Rhodes, Kenneth Williams, Bob Ferguson, Jim Neal, Algie ...
Sep. 1—OXFORD — The University of Mississippi is celebrating the 60th anniversary of integration with a slate of events throughout the entire 2022-23 academic year, including a signature event ...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center will add a Master of Science in Health Professions Education. This degree program was created after UMMC conducted a faculty survey and determined less ...