Civil rights, culture wars : the fight over a Mississippi textbook / Charles W. Eagles.
Eagles, Charles W., author.
2017
E175.8 .E24 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Civil rights, culture wars : the fight over a Mississippi textbook / Charles W. Eagles.
Author Eagles, Charles W., author.
ISBN 9781469631158 (hardcover)
1469631156 (hardcover)
9781469631165 (electronic book)
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Language English
Description 298 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number E175.8 .E24 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.2
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. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban. Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-288) and index.
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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.

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