We ain't what we was : civil rights in the new South / Frederick M. Wirt ; [with a foreword by Gary Orfield]
When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi Delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demo...
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- I: The context for change
- Setting the community scene
- Regional changes in the south, 1970-1990
- Panola's pre-1970 response to civil rights
- II: Institutional and individual changes in Panola
- Local politics and black empowerment
- South Panola and desegregation
- Two responses to desegregation in North Panola
- The results for students in different systems
- The local economy and political regimes
- III: Internal and external concepts of race and law
- Local perspectives on race and law
- The theoretical context of race and law.