A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation As You Go

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A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was once accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summertime of 1969. Even supposing it appeared to him a bit odd that he was once accepted so quickly for this job whilst his other applications went nowhere, he was once grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to be told that he was once to be assigned to an all-black school as step one in Mississippi’s long-deferred school desegregation.

 

The nation and Mississippi alike were being transformed by war and evolving racial relations, and Beckwith found himself on the cutting edge of the transformation of American education and society in one of the crucial resistant (and poor) corners of the country. Beckwith’s revealing and continuously amusing story of the year of mutual incomprehension between an inexperienced white teacher and a classroom full of black children who had had minimal contact with any whites. This is history as it was once experienced by those who were thrust into another sort of “front line.”

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