Beyond Little Rock : the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis / John A. Kirk.

Publisher's description: Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk's essays, two of which have never been published before. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the larger story of...

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Main Author: Kirk, John A., 1970-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 to the civil rights struggle : massive resistance and minimum compliance : the origins of the 1957 Little Rock crisis and the failure of school desegregation in the South
  • White support for 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.