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Lines Were Drawn - Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School (Paperback)
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Lines Were Drawn - Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School (Paperback)
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Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose
entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal
court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other
research, this group memoir considers how the students, despite
their markedly different backgrounds, shared a common experience
that greatly influences their present interactions and views of the
world-sometimes in surprising ways. The book is also an exploration
of memory and the ways in which the same event can be remembered in
very different ways by the participants. The editors (proud members
of Murrah High School's Class of 1973) and more than fifty students
and teachers address the reality of forced desegregation in the
Deep South from a unique perspective-that of the faculty and
students who experienced it and made it work, however briefly. The
book tries to capture the few years in which enough people were so
willing to do something about racial division that they sacrificed
immediate expectations to give integration a true chance. This
period recognizes a rare moment when the political will almost
caught up with the determination of the federal courts to finally
do something about race. Because of that collision of
circumstances, southerners of both races assembled in the public
schools and made integration work by coming together, and this book
seeks to capture those experiences for subsequent generations.
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