A new day in the Delta : inventing school desegregation as you go / David W. Beckwith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckwith, David W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--United States--Biography.

Teachers.

Teachers, White--Mississippi--Leland.

Teachers, White.

Faculty integration--Mississippi--Leland.

Faculty integration.

Beckwith, David W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippi's long-deferred school d

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Chapter 38; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Internal Staff Memorandum for Leland Schools; Appendix 2. National States' Rights Party Newsletter

Appendix 3. Letter by National States' Rights Party National Chairman J. E. Stoner

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8110-4

OCLC:

819624350