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Civil rights, culture wars : the fight over a Mississippi textbook / Charles W. Eagles.

Van Pelt Library E175.8 .E24 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Eagles, Charles W., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
History--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Mississippi.
History.
Civil rights.
Textbooks.
History--Study and teaching (Secondary).
Mississippi--History--Textbooks.
Mississippi.
Civil rights--Mississippi--History.
Genre:
History.
Textbooks.
Physical Description:
298 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Contents:
Conflict: combating ignorance
Textbooks: their history, role, and importance
Histories: earlier Mississippi history textbooks
Writers: Jim Loewen, Charles Sallis, and their team
Project: development and writing of conflict and change
Reception: reviews and reactions
Controversy: rejected by the textbook purchasing board
Case: preparing the legal challenge
Trial: Loewen v. Turnipseed in federal court
Change: the book's effects and the culture wars.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781469631158
1469631156
OCLC:
949553656

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