The Hardest Deal of All

The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 is a non-fiction book by Charles C. Bolton, published in 2005 by the University Press of Mississippi.

Background
Documents from the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and oral histories were used as sources.

Contents
The book presents information in historic sequence.

The establishment of a segregated schooling system in Mississippi is detailed at the first chapter. The white community's opposition to Brown v. Board of Education is detailed in the midpoint of the book.

Reception
Hassan Kwame Jeffries of Ohio State University wrote that the work "succeeds in" explaining the effect discriminatory practices had on the state's government-operated K-12 education.