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Author: Facing History and Ourselves
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Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780979844058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Charles Witsell
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1557286620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas Press, a collaboration, Fayettville 2014"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Cary Bradburn
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780976414308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Fred Williams
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1893619826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of Little Rock, Arkansas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author: Eileen Lucas
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1430129913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe memorable and courageous story of nine teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 who helped "crack the wall" of segregation is clearly presented in this inspiring story.
Author: Marshall Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1416950664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo boys in Little Rock get caught up in the storm of the struggle over public school integration.
Author: Shelley Tougas
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-05-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 0756565340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the worlds attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. In defiance of a federal court order, Governor Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering all white Central High School. The plan had been for the students to meet and go to school as a group on September 4, 1957. But one student, Elizabeth Eckford, didnt hear of the plan and tried to enter the school alone. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. Years later Counts snapped another photo, this one of the same two girls, now grownup, reconciling in front of Central High School.
Author: LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 168226047X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn’t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community were on you.”—Glenda Wilson, East Side Junior High Much has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock’s five public junior high schools—East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side—in 1961 and 1962. The First Twenty-Five gathers the personal stories of these students some fifty years later. They recall what it was like to break down long-standing racial barriers while in their early teens—a developmental stage that often brings emotional vulnerability. In their own words, these individuals share what they saw, heard, and felt as children on the front lines of the civil rights movement, providing insight about this important time in Little Rock, and how these often painful events from their childhoods affected the rest of their lives.
Author: Daisy Bates
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1610752473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.
Author: Ray Hanley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467113948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRediscover the rich heritage of Little Rock through its lost architectural treasures as told by Ray Hanley, a lifelong Arkansan and resident of Little Rock. Little Rock is a sprawling city of about 200,000 at the center of a metropolitan area of more than 500,000 people, with many residing in bedroom communities in adjoining counties. Arkansas's capital city is much like the rest of Middle America with its outlying suburbs, gated communities, and shopping centers miles from the historic core. A century ago, however, Little Rock was markedly different and served a population of fewer than 50,000. The majority of citizens lived within blocks of the town center and did business downtown along rows of shops that, in many cases, dated to the late 1800s. Images of America: Lost Little Rock uses vintage photographs to reflect upon earlier times and the rich retail landscape that once filled the town. By exploring the legacies of buildings that have since been demolished, repurposed, or destroyed by fire, these images provide a sense of Little Rock's lesser-known heritage.
