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Acknowledgments The author thanks the editors of publications in which some of these essays previously appeared. “The 1957 Little Rock Crisis: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective,” by John A. Kirk from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. By permission of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Dr. J. M. Robinson, the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association and Black Politics in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1928–1952,” by John A. Kirk pages 2–16 from the Pulaski County Historical Review (Spring 1993) 41:1 and pages 39–47 from the Pulaski County Historical Review (Summer 1993) 41:2. By permission of the Pulaski County Historical Review. “‘He Founded a Movement’: W. H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations and Black Activism in Arkansas, 1940–1957,” by John A. Kirk pages 29–44 from The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in America, edited by Brian Ward and Tony Badger (London: Macmillan, 1996). By permission of Palgrave Macmillan Publishers. “Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Little Rock School Crisis: A Gendered Perspective,” by John A. Kirk pages 17–40 from Gender and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Peter Ling and Sharon Montieth (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999; reprinted New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004). By permission of Rutgers University Press. “Massive Resistance and Minimum Compliance: The Origins of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis and the Failure of School Desegregation in the South” by John A. Kirk pages 76–98 from Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction, edited by Clive Webb (2005). By permission of Oxford University Press. xv “A Study in Second-Class Citizenship”: Race, Urban Development, and Little Rock’s Gillam Park, 1934–2004 by John A. Kirk pages 282–286 from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly 64:3 (Autumn 2005). By permission of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Housing, Urban Development, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the Post-Civil Rights South,” by John A. Kirk pages 47–60 from Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Society and Culture 8:1 (Winter 2006). By permission of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Society and Culture. xvi Beyond Little Rock ...

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