The Little Rock Desegregation Crisis

Author : Robert Somerlott
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766012981
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History written by Robert Somerlott and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key figures and events surrounding the Little Rock, Arkansas, desegregation crisis in 1957, considered to be one of the most controversial battles of the civil rights movement.

Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1538380412
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Rock Desegregation Crisis written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fall of 1957, nine black students approached the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine, were testing a 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation illegal. Their actions led to a standoff, with the state National Guard ordered to bar the students' entry. Weeks later, federal troops sent by President Eisenhower arrived to escort them inside. Readers will find themselves experiencing the desegregation crisis and a time of clashing attitudes that would affect all Little Rock's students, black and white, and the rest of the country's as well.

Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832144
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Rock written by Karen Anderson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557288783
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Away Thy Son written by Elizabeth Jacoway and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Jacoway C. Fred Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754415
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: an Exercise in Remebrance and Reconcil (p) written by Elizabeth Jacoway C. Fred Williams and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Perry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137521341
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Rock Crisis written by R. Perry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Diane Andrews Henningfeld
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 073776368X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Rock Nine written by Diane Andrews Henningfeld and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ernest Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life is More Than a Moment written by Ernest Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50th Anniversary Edition of a bestselling book that tells the story behind the photographs that shocked our nation

Author : Daisy Bates
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752473
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow of Little Rock written by Daisy Bates and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Margolick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178352
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth and Hazel written by David Margolick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.