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Author : George Rollie Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733366922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)
Download or read book South of Little Rock written by George Rollie Adams and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristin Levine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142424358
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
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
Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832144
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
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 : David Margolick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178352
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
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.
Author : Daisy Bates
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610752473
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
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 : Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979844058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
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.
Author : Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ark.).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Crisis in the South written by Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ark.). and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Allan Freyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Little Rock on Trial written by Tony Allan Freyer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, a violent mob barred black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School and was faced off against paratroopers sent by a reluctant President Eisenhower. This book provides a summary of that historic case and shows that it paved the way for later civil rights victories. It describes the work of the Little Rock NAACP.
Author : George Rollie Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733366953
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Found in Pieces written by George Rollie Adams and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-rending story of two mothers-one white, one black-struggling for truth and justice in the Civil Rights-era South In 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family's financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a smoldering desegregation crisis flames up in the state capital, and Elton Washington-a young black man whose mother, Sadie Rose, is also a businesswoman-disappears. The mystery of Elton's whereabouts brings Pearl and Sadie Rose together in a gut-wrenching search for truth and justice and leaves Pearl facing editorial and business decisions that could lead to more money woes and even physical harm to herself and those around her. Which way will she turn when commitment to honesty, integrity, and equal rights runs headlong into responsibility and duty to family? Both women's lives are complicated further when townspeople learn what happened with Elton. Meanwhile, the head of the local White Citizens' Council stirs racial hatred, and another prominent white man hides a dark secret that Sadie Rose knows but will not tell. The town's former marshal-a white septuagenarian everyone calls Mr. Claude-and a black businessman-Leon Jackson-play important roles in the shocking events, including murder, that follow. But Pearl is key to the answers they seek. Find out why.
Author : Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557285306
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Little Rock Crisis written by Elizabeth Jacoway and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roger Glasgow
Publisher : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781935106883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Down and Dirty Down South written by Roger Glasgow and published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning from a vacation trip to Mexico, Little Rock attorney Roger Glasgow were stopped at the border crossing. What followed was a long nightmare of political intrigue and subterfuge. Down and Dirty Down South is Glasgow's story of how he attempted to clear his name and also track down the people who had set him up for charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.
Author : Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557288783
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (887 download)
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 : Steven G. Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524788
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Little Rock written by Steven G. Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Rock, the bustling capital of Arkansas, boasts a rich and fascinating history. Starting out as a convenient fording site on the Arkansas River, the town quickly became an important stop for early pioneers and soon grew into a modern metropolis.
Author : Irving J. Spitzberg
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Racial Politics in Little Rock, 1954-1964 written by Irving J. Spitzberg and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James mcFee
Publisher : Soffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book City Maps Little Rock Arkansas, USA written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Little Rock Arkansas, USA is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Little Rock adventure :)
Author : Brad Babin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book South of Little Rock and Other Stories written by Brad Babin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1464612269
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (646 download)
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: In September 1957, nine brave African-American students attempted to do something that had not been done in the segregated South, integrate a public school. Until 1957, black students could not attend school with white students, and black schools were often inferior to white schools. However, in the face of hatred, protest, and violence, these courageous students, who came to be known as the Little Rock Nine, led the charge for change. Through riveting primary source photographs, author David Aretha examines this critical time in the Civil Rights Movement.
