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Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook

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Just as Mississippi whites within the 1950s and 1960s had fought to take care of school segregation, they battled within the 1970s to regulate the school curriculum. Educators faced a an important choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view in their state’s past. In 1974, when Random House’s Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back on the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to sign up for others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban.

Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our figuring out either one of civil rights activism within the movement’s last days and of an early controversy within the culture wars that persist as of late.

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