Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: an Exercise in Remebrance and Reconcil (p)
Author: Elizabeth Jacoway C. Fred Williams
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781610754415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Jacoway C. Fred Williams
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781610754415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Diane Andrews Henningfeld
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 073776368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This must-have volume explores the events surrounding the Little Rock Nine crisis. Collected essays provide the historical background, from sources such as the National Park Service and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Controversies are then explored, including whether President Eisenhower acted wisely in sending federal troops to Little Rock. After controversies are explained, reader are then presented with compelling first-hand accounts of the experience, by people who lived through it. Readers hear from notables such as Minnijean Brown Trickey, Thelma Mothershed Wair, and Elizabeth Eckford.
Author: Karen Anderson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-11-10
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1400832144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Mara Miller
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780766028357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Discusses the story of nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, including the history that led to the event and the discrimination they faced on a daily basis"--Provided by publisher.
Author: David Margolick
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0300178352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780979844058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1557285306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Shelley Tougas
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 0756544408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the newspaper photograph of African American Elizabeth Eckford trying to enter Little Rock, Arkansas's all-white Central High School in 1957.
Author: Tony Allan Freyer
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781557288783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.