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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821789003321

Autore

Kirk John A. <1970->

Titolo

Beyond Little Rock : the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis / / John A. Kirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2007

ISBN

1-61075-065-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TrickeyMinnijean Brown

Disciplina

323.1/19607307677309045

Soggetti

African American civil rights workers - Arkansas

African Americans - Civil rights - Arkansas - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - Arkansas - Little Rock - History - 20th century

African Americans - Education - Arkansas - Little Rock - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Arkansas - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Arkansas - Little Rock - History - 20th century

School integration - Arkansas - Little Rock - History - 20th century

Arkansas Race relations History 20th century

Little Rock (Ark.) Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The 1957 Little Rock Crisis; 2. The New Deal and the Civil Rights Struggle; 3. Politics and the Early Civil Rights Struggle; 4. Mass Mobilization and the Early Civil Rights Struggle; 5. Gender and the Civil Rights Struggle; 6. White Opposition to the Civil Rights Struggle; 7. White Support for the Civil Rights Struggle; 8. City Planning and the Civil Rights Struggle; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div>John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.</div>