An epitaph for Little Rock
Subtitle: a fiftieth anniversary retrospective on the Central High Crisis
By: edited by John A. Kirk.
Contributors: Kirk, John A., 1970-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781557288745
Subjects: Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- History -- 20th century; Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Historiography; School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century; African American students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Attitudes; Whites -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Attitudes; School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Historiography; Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil K. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III. A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical essay from Kirk, An Epitaph for Little Rock is essential reading on this defining moment in America's civil rights struggle."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.