Civil Rights, Culture Wars
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African Americans
Andre Schiffrin
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Charles Sallis
civil rights movement in Mississippi
controversy over textbooks
culture wars
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First Amendment
Frank Parker
Jim Loewen
John K. Bettersworth
Lillian Smith Award
Mel Leventhal
Millsaps College
Mississippi history
Pantheon
public education in Mississippi
state history
state history textbooks
textbook censorship
Tougaloo College
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- ISBN 9781469654805
- Weight: 465g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban.
Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.
Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.
Charles W. Eagles is William F. Winter Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Mississippi.
