Little Rock Race and Resistance At Central High School

"Telling the fascinating story of the Little Rock crisis in wonderful detail, this book mines newspapers, personal papers, memoirs, interviews, and more, for the background behind the headlines. The interweaving of many perspectives allows readers to see this story as fluid rather than static: Anderson tracks the progress and backtracking, the ambivalence of southern moderates, the development of political networks, as well as the gains and losses. This is an important story."--Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College
"This book takes as its subject one of the seminal chapters in the history of the modern civil rights movement, the struggle to integrate the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. Filled with fascinating characters, it is a story replete with drama and quiet triumph."--Jerald E. Podair, Lawrence University

About the author

Karen Anderson

Summary

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. This title offers a landmark of American history.

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"[T]his volume brilliantly details the moral shortfalls of people 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.'"---Ruth Tait, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World

Product details

• Authors: Karen Anderson, ANDERSON, Karen Gerstle
• Assisted by: Julian Zelizer (Editor), Linda Gordon (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 10.11.2013
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780691159614
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15961-4
• Pages: 344
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Twenti; Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Modern > 96
• Subjects: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies