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Understanding the Little Rock crisis : an exercise in remembrance and reconciliation /

"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. Forty years later, in the fall of 1997, the "Little Rock Nine" returned to Central High, this time escorted by President Bill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jacoway, Elizabeth, 1944-, Williams, C. Fred
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: understanding the past: the challenge of Little Rock / Elizabeth Jacoway
  • Little Rock and the promise of America / Sheldon Hackney
  • Segregation and racism: taking up the dream again / David R. Goldfield
  • Growing up segregated / George C. Wright
  • Growing up integrated / Joel Williamson
  • Arkansas, the Brown decision, and the 1957 Little Rock School crisis: a local perspective / John A. Kirk
  • The white reaction to Brown: Arkansas, the southern manifesto, and massive resistance / Anthony J. Badger
  • The contest for the soul of Orval Faubus / Roy Reed
  • The lesson of Little Rock: stability, growth, and change in the American South / James C. Cobb
  • The constitutional lessons of the Little Rock crisis / Kermit L. Hall
  • The past as future: the Little Rock crisis and the constitution / Tony A. Freyer
  • The documentary heritage of the Central High crisis: a biographical essay / Michael J. Dabrishus.