Integration now : Alexander v. Holmes and the end of Jim Crow education / William P. Hustwit.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781469648569
- 9781469648576
- Alexander, Beatrice -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Holmes County (Miss.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc
- School integration -- Mississippi -- Holmes County -- History -- 20th century
- School integration -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- LC214 .I584 2019
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Race and education before Alexander -- The Holmes County movement -- The grassroots and the lawyers -- Pleading for the Fifth -- All the President's mendacity -- Alexander in the high court -- An imperfect revolution : enforcing Alexander.
"Recovering the history of a landmark Supreme Court case that has received surprisingly little attention from scholars, William P. Hustwit assesses the significant role that Alexander v. Holmes (1969) played in integrating the South's public schools and argues that the Alexander decision was ultimately more decisive than Brown v. Board in terminating public school segregation. Although the Brown ruling has rightly received the lion's share of attention, its ambiguous implementation language --
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