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The Principal of the Matter (Hardcover)
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The Principal of the Matter: the place, Yazoo City, Mississippi;
one of the issues, the court-ordered desegregation of the public
schools; the antagonists, the school officials. When the civil
rights movement intensified in the South, circa 1954, white
political leaders who believed in and practiced the ideology of
"white supremacy" worked in concert to reverse the direction
integration was heading in America. In 1970, some sixteen years out
from the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
decision, we were still trying to get bigots to obey the law of the
land. In a letter dated August 13, 1971, then U.S. Senator Walter
F. Mondale (later Vice President Mondale) wrote: Dear Mr. Ward: I
have received your recent letter describing the explosive situation
in Yazoo City. I certainly share your concern that unless the
discriminatory treatment of black students in the Yazoo City school
system is eliminated, the opening of school in September may be a
most serious occasion. I have referred your concern to the Justice
Department and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
requesting their investigation and corrective action. In The
Principal of the Matter, Eugene "Harry" Ward unfurls the calculated
practices of de jure and de facto segregation, separation of the
races that was supposedly equal under the "law" and "as a matter of
fact."
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