Civil rights, culture wars : the fight over a Mississippi textbook /

Eagles, Charles W.,

Civil rights, culture wars : the fight over a Mississippi textbook / Charles W. Eagles. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 volume Turnipseed in federal court -- Change: the book's effects and the culture wars.



9781469631165


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


Electronic Books.

E175 / .C585 2017