The hardest deal of all: the battle over school integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980

Too many schools, too little money : Mississippi's dual education system, 1870-1940

A last gasp to maintain a segregated system : Mississippi's failed effort to make separate education truly equal

Years of nothing but deliberate speed : the aftermath of Brown in Mississippi

The crack in the wall : school desegregation begins

Freedom of choice for whites : massive resistance by another name

Freedom of choice for blacks : "very little choice and no freedom at all"

School integration : we do not want our children going to school with yours

School integration : a pyrrhic victory?