In this Book
- The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, 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. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround 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 eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-viii
- Foreword to the Arkansas Edition
- pp. xi-xiv
- Foreword to the First Edition
- pp. xv-xviii
- Chapter I - Little Rock
- pp. 1-5
- Chapter II - Rebirth
- pp. 6-31
- Chapter III - Across My Desk
- pp. 32-58
- Chapter V - She Walked Alone
- pp. 69-76
- Chapter VI - Out of the Hills
- pp. 77-84
- Chapter VII - A City Gripped by Fear
- pp. 85-87
- Chapter IX - The Federal Troops Move In
- pp. 98-106
- Chapter X - Arrest
- pp. 107-112
- Chapter XI - The Embattled Nine
- pp. 113-160
- Chapter XII - The Appeal to the President
- pp. 161-169
- Chapter XIII - Death of the State Press
- pp. 170-178
- Chapter XIV - White Casualties
- pp. 179-213
- Chapter XV - On Whose Shoulders
- pp. 214-218
- Chapter XVI - How Long, How Long,...?
- pp. 219-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610752473
Related ISBN(s)
9781557288639
MARC Record
OCLC
899261565
Pages
269
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007