The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2011 Full Court Press: How Mississippi Newspapers Helped Keep State College Basketball Segregated, 1955-1973 Jason Ashley Peterson University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Peterson, Jason Ashley, "Full Court Press: How Mississippi Newspapers Helped Keep State College Basketball Segregated, 1955-1973" (2011). Dissertations. 736. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/736 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi FULL COURT PRESS: HOW MISSISSIPPI NEWSPAPERS HELPED KEEP STATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL SEGREGATED, 1955-1973 by Jason Ashley Peterson A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Approved: ____________________________________ Director ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School