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Author : Shelley Tougas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756544409
Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the newspaper photograph of African American Elizabeth Eckford trying to enter Little Rock, Arkansas's all-white Central High School in 1957.
Author : Shelley Tougas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756565343
Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the worlds attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. In defiance of a federal court order, Governor Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering all white Central High School. The plan had been for the students to meet and go to school as a group on September 4, 1957. But one student, Elizabeth Eckford, didnt hear of the plan and tried to enter the school alone. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. Years later Counts snapped another photo, this one of the same two girls, now grownup, reconciling in front of Central High School.
Author : David Margolick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300178357
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation--in Little Rock and throughout the South--and an epic moment in the civil rights movement.In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed--perhaps inevitably--over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.
Author : Carlotta Walls LaNier,Lisa Frazier Page
Publisher : One World
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345511010
“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School “Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated Press When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
Author : Melba Beals
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781328882127
A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761372745
On September 4, 1957, nine African American teenagers made their way toward Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They didn’t make it very far. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard blocked most of them at the edge of campus. The three students who did make it onto campus faced an angry mob. White citizens spit at them and shouted ugly racial slurs. No black students entered Central that day. And if the angry mob had its way, black children would never attend school with white children. But the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1955 that school segregation—that is, separate schools for black children and white children—was unconstitutional. The Court ordered the nation’s schools to be integrated. Nowhere was that process more hateful and more horrific than in Little Rock. Eventually, the nine students did make it into Central High—under the protection of army soldiers. Once inside Central, they faced a never-ending torrent of abuse from white students. But the nine students persevered. Their courage inspired the growing movement for African American civil rights.
Author : Eileen Lucas
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761358749
The story of the 1957 desegregation of a Little Rock school includes a script for readers' theater.
Author : Elizabeth Eckford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American students
ISBN : 0999766104
The author shares the back story of the crisis at Central High from her purview in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the school's desegregation. Her experiences will inspire readers of all ages, and gives new meaning to the importance of resilience after a "bad day".
Author : Sharon Draper
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781440651366
Sylvia is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in the fall of 1957, whether people like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is going to stop the change from coming. It is up to her generation to make it happen, in as many different ways as there are colors in the world.
Author : Daisy Bates
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610752473
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.
Author : Marshall Poe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781416950660
Two boys in Little Rock get caught up in the storm of the struggle over public school integration.
Author : Kristin Levine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101550441
"Satisfying, gratifying, touching, weighty—this authentic piece of work has got soul."—The New York Times Book Review As twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels like her whole world is falling apart. Until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. Liz is everything Marlee wishes she could be: she's brave, brash and always knows the right thing to say. But when Liz leaves school without even a good-bye, the rumor is that Liz was caught passing for white. Marlee decides that doesn't matter. She just wants her friend back. And to stay friends, Marlee and Liz are even willing to take on segregation and the dangers their friendship could bring to both their families. Winner of the New-York Historical Society Children’s History Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Author : Sondra Gordy
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1610751523
Much has been written about the Little Rock School Crisis of 1957, but very little has been devoted to the following year—the Lost Year, 1958–59—when Little Rock schools were closed to all students, both black and white. Finding the Lost Year is the first book to look at the unresolved elements of the school desegregation crisis and how it turned into a community crisis, when policymakers thwarted desegregation and challenged the creation of a racially integrated community and when competing groups staked out agendas that set Arkansas’s capital on a path that has played out for the past fifty years. In Little Rock in 1958, 3,665 students were locked out of a free public education. Teachers’ lives were disrupted, but students’ lives were even more confused. Some were able to attend schools outside the city, some left the state, some joined the military, some took correspondence courses, but fully 50 percent of the black students went without any schooling. Drawing on personal interviews with over sixty former teachers and students, black and white, Gordy details the long-term consequences for students affected by events and circumstances over which they had little control.
Author : Eileen Lucas
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430129912
The memorable and courageous story of nine teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 who helped "crack the wall" of segregation is clearly presented in this inspiring story.
Author : Facing History and Ourselves,Facing History and Ourselves Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979844053
This resource investigates the choices made by the Little Rock Nine and others in the Little Rock community during the civil rights movement during efforts to desegregate Central High School in 1957.