The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Subtitle: A Memoir
Contributors: Eleanor Roosevelt (Foreword); Clayborne Carson (Afterword)
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: September 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781557288639
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Racism & racial discrimination; Teaching of specific groups; c 1945 to c 1960; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; History - U.S.; Biography/Autobiography; Arkansas; Cultural Heritage; Historical - U.S.; United States - 20th Century/50s; United States - State & Local - General; United States - State & Local - South; People of Color; Personal Memoirs; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
First sentence: UNTIL a September day in 1957 Little Rock was a quiet, undistinguished southern city, notable principally as being the capital of the State of Arkansas and for having won several national awards for being one of the cleanest cities of its size.