Charles W Eagles: 2 books
Civil Rights, Culture Wars
The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
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...
The Price of Defiance
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the...