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

• Autore: Kirk John A. <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1/19607307677309045
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Arkansas Race relations History 20th century; Little Rock (Ark.) Race relations History 20th century
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Little Rock
• ISBN: 1-61075-065-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821789003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II