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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1. A Little Girl from Huttig 13 2. A Much Older Man 22 3. A Newspaper All Their Own 32 4. Two for the Price of One 43 5. An Unwavering Commitment 53 6. The Bombshell of Brown v. Board of Education 65 7. A Foot in the Schoolhouse Door 83 8. Two Steps Back 93 9. Front and Center 112 10. Who Is That Woman in Little Rock? 131 11. A Battle Every Day 148 12. Woman of the Year 160 13. Holding the Line 173 14. Coping with Defeat 191 15. The New York Years 210 16. Going in Different Directions 233 17. The Long Shadow of Little Rock 247 18. Mitchellville—Self-Help or Monument? 259 19. Fighting Over a Legend 280 Notes 298 Index 335 - vii - This page intentionally left blank ...

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