Little Rock : : Race and Resistance at Central High School /

Little Rock : : Race and Resistance at Central High School / / Karen Anderson.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Anderson, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2010
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 96
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 12 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Not Here, Not Now, Not Us
  • 1. Mapping Change: Little Rock Forges a Desegregation Plan
  • 2. "Occupied Arkansas": Class, Gender, and the Politics of Resistance
  • 3. Uncivil Disobedience: The Politics of Race and Resistance at Central High School, 1957-1958
  • 4. The Politics of School Closure: Massive Resistance Put to the Test, 1958-1959
  • 5. The Politics of Fear and Gridlock
  • 6. Politics as Usual: Reviving the Politics of Tokenism
  • Conclusions: Little Rock and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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