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