An epitaph for Little Rock : a fiftieth anniversary retrospective on the Central High Crisis /

An epitaph for Little Rock : a fiftieth anniversary retrospective on the Central High Crisis / edited by John A. Kirk ; with a foreword by Juan Williams. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (xxv, 190 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Looking Back At Little Rock; The White Citizens' Council and Resistance To School Desegregation In Arkansas; Politics and Law In The Little Rock Crisis, 1954-1957; Orval E. Faubus; Diversity Within A Racial Group ; Power From The Pedestal; The Little Rock Crisis and Postwar Black Activism In Arkansas; International Pressure and The U.S. Government's Response To Little Rock; After 1957; Notes; Index.

John A. Kirk is professor of U.S. history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Beyond Little Rock.



9781610751421


Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History--20th century.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--Historiography.


School integration--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
African American students--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
African Americans--Attitudes.--Arkansas--Little Rock
White people--Attitudes.--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Historiography.--Arkansas--Little Rock


Electronic Books.

LC214 / .E658 2008