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A pictorial history of Arkansas's Old State House : celebrating 175 years
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ISBN: 1610751868 9781610751865 9781557289551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,

Beyond Little Rock
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ISBN: 1610750659 9781610750653 9781557288509 155728850X 9781557288516 1557288518 Year: 2007 Publisher: Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press

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John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

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Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock
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ISBN: 1452604185 1283292513 9786613292513 0300178352 9780300178357 9780300141931 0300141939 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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.

Breaking the silence : Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963
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ISBN: 1610750837 9781610750837 1557284563 9781557284563 1557285152 9781557285157 Year: 1997 Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,


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Remember Little Rock
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ISBN: 9781613765029 1613765029 9781625342690 9781625342683 1625342683 1625342691 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amherst : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,


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Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote : The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920
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ISBN: 193510683X 1935106821 Year: 2015 Publisher: Little Rock, Arkansas : Butler Center Books,


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Little Rock
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ISBN: 128245790X 9786612457906 1400832144 9781400832149 9781282457904 9780691092935 0691092931 6612457902 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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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.


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Finding the lost year : what happened when Little Rock closed its public schools?
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ISBN: 1610751523 9781610751520 9781557289001 155728900X 1682261697 Year: 2009 Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,

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Sondra Gordy is professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas. She produced a documentary about the topic, entitled The Lost Year. A copy of the DVD can be ordered at www.thelostyear.com.
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The Long Shadow of Little Rock : A Memoir
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ISBN: 1610752473 9781610752473 1557288631 9781557288639 1322098174 Year: 1986 Publisher: Fayetteville, Arkansas : The University of Arkansas Press,

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Recounts the 1957 incident in which nine black children were prevented from entering school. -- Publisher description.

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