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):

Civil rights--Mississippi--History.

Civil rights.

History--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Mississippi.

History.

Mississippi--History--Textbooks.

Mississippi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

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. In 1974, when Pantheon Books published 'Mississippi: Conflict and Change', the defenders of traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds.

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:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908519-0-1

979-88-908519-1-8

1-4696-3117-2

1-4696-3116-4

OCLC:

971492048