Beyond Little Rock the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis /

Kirk, John A., 1970-

Beyond Little Rock the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis / John A. Kirk. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [(c)2007.] - 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

The 1957 Little Rock crisis : a fiftieth anniversary retrospective -- The New Deal and the civil rights struggle : a case study of Black civilian conservation corps camps in Arkansas, 1933-1942 -- Politics and the early civil rights struggle : Dr. John Marshall Robinson, the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, and Black politics in Little Rock, 1928-1952 -- Mass mobilization and the early civil rights struggle : "he founded a movement" : W.H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations, and Black activism in Arkansas, 1940-1957 -- Gender and the civil rights struggle : Daisy Bates, the NAACP, and the Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective -- White opposition and the civil rights struggle : massive resistance and minimum compliance : the origins of the 1957 Little Rock crisis -- White Southern activism and the civil rights struggle : the Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, 1954-1974 -- City planning and the civil rights struggle : "a study in second-class citizenship" : race, urban development, and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004.

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John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award.





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African Americans--Civil rights--History--Arkansas--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Arkansas--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Biography.
School integration--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.
African Americans--Education--History--Arkansas--Little Rock--20th century.


Arkansas--Race relations--History--20th century.
Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations--History--20th century.


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