South of Little Rock
Author | : George Rollie Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781733366922 |
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Author | : George Rollie Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781733366922 |
Author | : Kristin Levine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0142424358 |
"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 |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400832144 |
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 | : Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ark.). |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Jacoway |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557285306 |
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 | : Perritano John |
Publisher | : Saddleback Educational Publishing |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2017-12-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1645980308 |
Themes: History, Civil Rights, Nonfiction, Tween, Emergent Reader, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Nine high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas were at the heart of the battle to integrate schools in the late 1950s. Many places in the south were slow to change, but things got especially heated in Little Rock, Arkansas. Engage your most struggling readers in grades 4-7 with Red Rhino Nonfiction! This new series features high-interest topics in every content area. Visually appealing full-color photographs and illustrations, fun facts, and short chapters keep emerging readers focused. Written at a 1.5-1.9 readability level, these books include pre-reading comprehension questions and a 20-word glossary for comprehension support.
Author | : Steven G. Hanley |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738524788 |
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 | : Elizabeth Jacoway |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557288783 |
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 | : Daisy Bates |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1610752473 |
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 | : Irving J. Spitzberg |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |