Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis

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Contents Foreword by Minnijean Brown Trickey ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 The 1957 Little Rock Crisis: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective 1 2 The New Deal and the Civil Rights Struggle: A Case Study of Black Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in Arkansas, 1933–1942 15 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 35 4 Mass Mobilization and the Early Civil Rights Struggle—“He Founded a Movement”: W. H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations, and Black Activism in Arkansas, 1940–1957 55 5 Gender and the Civil Rights Struggle: Daisy Bates, the NAACP, and the Little Rock School Crisis; A Gendered Perspective 70 6 White Opposition to the Civil Rights Struggle— Massive Resistance and Minimum Compliance: The Origins of the 1957 Little Rock Crisis and the Failure of School Desegregation in the South 94 7 White Support for the Civil Rights Struggle: The Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations 1954–1974 116 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 139 Notes 159 Index 201 viii Contents ...