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Author : Elizabeth Jacoway C. Fred Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1610754417
Author : Elizabeth Jacoway,C. Fred Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557285300
In the fall of 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prohibit nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School. In the fall of 1997, the "Little Rock Nine" returned to Central High, this time escorted by President Bill Clinton. In the forty years that had intervened, the United States witnessed substantial changes in American race relations, but the city of Little Rock had not overcome its legacy of strife. The two-year crisis, once over, left behind confusion and misunderstanding. Racial and class-based mistrust lingers in the city of Little Rock, and, nationally and internationally, perceptions of Arkansas are still tied to the decades-old images of hatred and strife that marked the Little Rock crisis. In 1997, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock sponsored a gathering of scholars who traced the origins and addressed the legacy of the Central High crisis. Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams commissioned a series of original and insightful papers that discussed economic, constitutional, historical, and personal aspects of the crisis and of segregation. Jacoway and Williams have collected the best of these papers, by such authors as Sheldon Hackney, Joel Williamson, and James Cobb and offer them here in the hope of enhancing understanding of, and creating a dialogue about, this defining moment in American history. This collection of accessible and provocative essays on a signal event in civil rights in this nation will resonate broadly and appeal to a diverse audience.
Author : R. Perry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137521347
The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories – individual and collective – have motivated Little Rockians for social and political action and engagement.
Author : Tony Allan Freyer
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Discrimination in education
ISBN : UCAL:B4919928
Author : Diane Andrews Henningfeld
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737763683
This must-have volume explores the events surrounding the Little Rock Nine crisis. Collected essays provide the historical background, from sources such as the National Park Service and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Controversies are then explored, including whether President Eisenhower acted wisely in sending federal troops to Little Rock. After controversies are explained, reader are then presented with compelling first-hand accounts of the experience, by people who lived through it. Readers hear from notables such as Minnijean Brown Trickey, Thelma Mothershed Wair, and Elizabeth Eckford.
Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400832149
A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in America The desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in. On September 25, 1957, nine black students, escorted by federal troops, gained entrance. With grace and depth, Little Rock provides fresh perspectives on the individuals, especially the activists and policymakers, involved in these dramatic events. Looking at a wide variety of evidence and sources, Karen Anderson examines American racial politics in relation to changes in youth culture, sexuality, gender relations, and economics, and she locates the conflicts of Little Rock within the larger political and historical context. Anderson considers how white groups at the time, including middle class women and the working class, shaped American race and class relations. She documents white women's political mobilizations and, exploring political resentments, sexual fears, and religious affiliations, illuminates the reasons behind segregationists' missteps and blunders. Anderson explains how the business elite in Little Rock retained power in the face of opposition, and identifies the moral failures of business leaders and moderates who sought the appearance of federal compliance rather than actual racial justice, leaving behind a legacy of white flight, poor urban schools, and institutional racism. Probing the conflicts of school desegregation in the mid-century South, Little Rock casts new light on connections between social inequality and the culture wars of modern America. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756520118
Examines the nine students who tried to integrate at an all-white school.
Author : Shelley Tougas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Marshall Poe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : John A. Kirk
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1610751426
This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil R. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III. A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical essay from John A. Kirk, An Epitaph for Little Rock is essential reading on this defining moment in America's civil rights struggle.
Author : John A. Kirk,Minnijean Brown Trickey
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781557288516
Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk’s essays, two of which have never been published before. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the larger story of the African American struggle for freedom and equality in Arkansas. Examining key episodes in state history from before the New Deal to the present, Kirk covers a wide range of topics that include the historiography of the school crisis; the impact of the New Deal; early African American politics and mass mobilization; race, gender, and the civil rights movement; the role of white liberals in the struggle; and the intersections of race and city planning policy. Kirk unearths many previously neglected individuals, organizations, and episodes, and provides a thought-provoking analytical framework for understanding them.
Author : David Margolick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 155728878X
A historical account of the efforts of nine African-American students to integrate Central High School draws on interviews to offer insight into the behind-the-scenes experiences of the students and members of their community.
Author : Eileen Lucas
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Gary Jeffrey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433974830
Retells in comics format the story of the brave African American students who faced violent opposition when they integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September, 1957.