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Article: `Hoxie: The First Stand'; Producers: David Appleby and the University of Memphis.(Newspro)(Interview)
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- TelevisionWeek
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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Byline: DAISY WHITNEY
The story of the quest for racial integration in Southern schools has been well documented. But the saga of an Arkansas town called Hoxie, the third town to integrate after the pivotal Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1955, has received little ink.
That's why David Appleby, a filmmaker and a teacher at the University of Memphis, wanted to make a documentary about the Hoxie integration battle. He also was drawn to the story because it went against type.
"What interested me about this story is if you look at the Southern narratives about the '50s and '60s, they all tend to have the same characters,'' he said. ...
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Article: Though low in numbers, Hoxie remains in 11-man ranks.
The Hays Daily News (Hays, KS);
September 5, 2008 ;
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...Byline: Conor Nicholl Sep. 5--Hoxie High School had just 64 students when Kansas ... That enrollment number easily qualified Hoxie for Eight-Man, Division I and put the ... smallest classification in football. Yet Hoxie, which has a smaller enrollment than 47 ...
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