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Lessons from Little Rock.
Sober news reports of a U.S. Army convoy rumbling across the bridge into Little Rock cannot overpower this intimate, powerful, personal account of the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Showing what it felt like to be one of those nine students who wanted only a good high school educati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; 1. My Moment as a Fly; 2. First Grade Executives; 3. A Minister Who Learned the Wrong Lesson; 4. Saved by the West Ninth Street Taxi; 5. Finding Dad Before He Drank Up the Paycheck; 6. "Stretch it Out"; 7. Three Dollars, an Eel, and Bright Kids; 8. The All-White Electricians' Union; 9. "The Little Rock Seventeen"; Photographs; 10. Daisy Bates and Thurgood Marshall; 11. A System for Rating Insults; 12. The Penknife and the Switchblade; 13. The Emotional Price of Non-Violence; 14. Lessons from the Barbershop and Lawn-Mowing Clients; 15. Unexpected Move to Los Angeles.
- 16. Those Who Would Re-Write History17. Consulting for the Little Rock School District; 18. Much to Learn; 19. Not a Linear Journey; Afterword; The Little Rock Nine Foundation; Appendix; Philander Smith College Remarks; The Ongoing Battle for Equality; Nine Who Dared; About the Author.