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Additional authors

1. Horn, Teena F.
2. Huffman, Alan
3. Jones, John Griffin

Description

1. xvii, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other research, this group memoir considers how the students, despite their markedly different backgrounds, shared a common experience that greatly influences their present interactions and views of the world--sometimes in surprising ways. The book is also an exploration of memory and the ways in which the same event can be remembered in very different ways by the participants. The editors (proud members of Murrah High School's Class of 1973) and more than fifty students and teachers address the reality of forced desegregation in the Deep South from a unique perspective--that of the faculty and students who experienced it and made it work, however briefly. The book tries to capture the few years in which enough people were so willing to do something about racial division that they sacrificed immediate expectations to give integration a true chance. This period recognizes a rare moment when the political will almost caught up with the determination of the federal courts to finally do something about race. Because of that collision of circumstances, southerners of both races assembled in the public schools and made integration work by coming together, and this book seeks to capture those experiences for subsequent generations"--

Subject

1. Murrah High School (Jackson, Miss.)
2. School integration > Mississippi > Jackson
3. High school students > Mississippi > Jackson
4. Discrimination in education > Mississippi > Jackson
5. School integration > United States > History
6. Discrimination in education > United States > History
7. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations
8. EDUCATION > History
9. Jackson (Miss.) > Race relations

Call number

1. Sc E 16-358

Note

1. Includes index.

Title

1. Lines were drawn : remembering court-ordered integration at a Mississippi high school / edited by Teena F. Horn, Alan Huffman, and John Griffin Jones.

Publisher

1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Connect to:

1. Cover image

Added author

1. Horn, Teena F., editor.
2. Huffman, Alan, editor.
3. Jones, John Griffin, editor.

LCCN

1. 2015024068

ISBN

1. 9781628462319 hardcover
2. 1628462310 hardcover
3. 9781626746640 electronic book

Research call number

1. Sc E 16-358