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Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk’s essays, two of which have never been published before. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the larger story of the African American struggle for freedom and equality in Arkansas. Examining key episodes in state history from before the New Deal to the present, Kirk covers a wide range of topics that include the historiography of the school crisis; the impact of the New Deal; early African American politics and mass mobilization; race, gender, and the civil rights movement; the role of white liberals in the struggle; and the intersections of race and city planning policy. Kirk unearths many previously neglected individuals, organizations, and episodes, and provides a thought-provoking analytical framework for understanding them.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. 1. The 1957 Little Rock Crisis: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. 2. The New Deal and the Civil Rights Struggle: A Case Study of Black Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in Arkansas, 1933–1942
  2. pp. 15-34
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  1. 3. Politics and the Early Civil Rights Struggle: Dr. John Marshall Robinson, the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, and Black Politics in Little Rock, 1928–1952
  2. pp. 35-54
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  1. 5. Gender and the Civil Rights Struggle: Daisy Bates, the NAACP, and the Little Rock School Crisis; A Gendered Perspective
  2. pp. 70-93
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  1. 7. White Support for the Civil Rights Struggle: The Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations 1954–1974
  2. pp. 116-138
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  1. 8. City Planning and the Civil Rights Struggle— “A Study in Second-Class Citizenship”: Race, Urban Development, and Little Rock’s Gillam Park, 1934–2004
  2. pp. 139-158
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 159-200
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 201-213
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  1. About the Author, Back Cover
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