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