Little Rock : race and resistance at Central High School

Little Rock : race and resistance at Central High School / Karen Anderson.

The desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black student...

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Main Author: Anderson, Karen, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) > History.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
1900-1999
School integration > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
African American students > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Education > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
School integration > Massive resistance movement > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American students
African Americans > Education
Politics and government
Race relations
School integration
School integration > Massive resistance movement
Little Rock (Ark.) > Race relations.
Little Rock (Ark.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Arkansas > Little Rock
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping change : Little Rock forges a desegregation plan
  • "Occupied Arkansas" : class, gender, and the politics of resistance
  • Uncivil disobedience : the politics of race and resistance at Central High School, 1957-1958
  • The politics of school closure : massive resistance put to the test, 1958-1959
  • The politics of fear and gridlock
  • Politics as usual : reviving the politics of tokenism.
  • Conclusions. Little Rock and the legacies of Brown v. Board of Education.

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