The long shadow of Little Rock
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Daisy Bates ; with a new preface by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
Series: The University of Arkansas Press reprint series ;; [vol. 3]
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Bates, Daisy -- Childhood and youth.; Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.); African Americans -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography.; School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.; Little Rock (Ark.) -- Biography.; Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: On September 3, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround Little Rock's 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 81 years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. Bates's classic account of the Little Rock School Crisis 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. McKay, 1962.
Includes index.