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The First Twenty-Five

Author : LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 168226047X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The First Twenty-Five written by LaVerne Bell-Tolliver and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn’t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community were on you.”—Glenda Wilson, East Side Junior High Much has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock’s five public junior high schools—East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side—in 1961 and 1962. The First Twenty-Five gathers the personal stories of these students some fifty years later. They recall what it was like to break down long-standing racial barriers while in their early teens—a developmental stage that often brings emotional vulnerability. In their own words, these individuals share what they saw, heard, and felt as children on the front lines of the civil rights movement, providing insight about this important time in Little Rock, and how these often painful events from their childhoods affected the rest of their lives.

Finding the Lost Year

Author : Sondra Gordy
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610751520
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Lost Year written by Sondra Gordy and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Little Rock

Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832144
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 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.

Choices in Little Rock

Author : Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979844058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Choices in Little Rock written by Facing History and Ourselves and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History

Author : Robert Somerlott
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766012981
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 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.

A Factual Report, Little Rock Public Schools

Author : Little Rock Public Schools (Little Rock, Ark.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book A Factual Report, Little Rock Public Schools written by Little Rock Public Schools (Little Rock, Ark.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Author : Duchess Harris
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532170548
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine written by Duchess Harris and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, segregation in public schools was banned. But the road to desegregate American schools was long and difficult. Activist Daisy Bates helped nine black students integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine explores their legacy. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Little Rock Nine

Author : Marshall Poe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416950664
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Little Rock Nine written by Marshall Poe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys in Little Rock get caught up in the storm of the struggle over public school integration.

The Lions of Little Rock

Author : Kristin Levine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142424358
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Lions of Little Rock written by Kristin Levine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Little Rock Nine

Author : Diane Andrews Henningfeld
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 073776368X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 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.

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

Author : Daisy Bates
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752473
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 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.

Little Rock Girl 1957

Author : Shelley Tougas
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756565340
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Little Rock Girl 1957 written by Shelley Tougas and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Warriors Don't Cry

Author : Melba Beals
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416948821
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Warriors Don't Cry written by Melba Beals and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Finding the Lost Year

Author : Sondra Gordy
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 155728900X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Lost Year written by Sondra Gordy and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Mighty Long Way

Author : Carlotta Walls LaNier
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0345511018
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Long Way written by Carlotta Walls LaNier and published by One World. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Little Rock

Author : Laurie A. O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562943547
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Little Rock written by Laurie A. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1957, a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a civil rights battleground when nine black students sought to enroll. This book tells their story and explains its importance in the broad context of the civil rights movement.

The Story of the Little Rock Nine and School Desegregation in Photographs

Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766058581
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Little Rock Nine and School Desegregation in Photographs written by David Aretha and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, including the nine African-American students that successfully integrated the Arkansas school and the controversy and crisis surrounding the event"--Provided by publisher.