The long shadow of Little Rock

Description:

On September 3, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround Little Rock's all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower--the first time in 81 years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. Bates's classic account of the Little Rock School Crisis couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award.--From publisher description.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Race relations,  School integration,  Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.),  African Americans,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Bates, daisy, 1860-1951,  African americans, biography,  African americans, arkansas,  Arkansas, social life and customs,  United states, race relations,  Little rock (ark.),  Arkansas, biography,  Public schools,  Little Rock (Ark.).,  Little Rock (Ark.). Public Schools

People: Daisy Bates

Places: Arkansas,  Little Rock,  Little Rock (Ark.)