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Author Kirk, John A., 1970-

Title Beyond Little Rock : the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis / John A. Kirk
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages)
Contents The 1957 Little Rock crisis : a fiftieth anniversary retrospective -- The New Deal and the civil rights struggle : a case study of Black civilian conservation corps camps in Arkansas, 1933-1942 -- Politics and the early civil rights struggle : Dr. John Marshall Robinson, the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, and Black politics in Little Rock, 1928-1952 -- Mass mobilization and the early civil rights struggle : "he founded a movement" : W.H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations, and Black activism in Arkansas, 1940-1957 -- Gender and the civil rights struggle : Daisy Bates, the NAACP, and the Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective -- White opposition and the civil rights struggle : massive resistance and minimum compliance : the origins of the 1957 Little Rock crisis -- White Southern activism and the civil rights struggle : the Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, 1954-1974 -- City planning and the civil rights struggle : "a study in second-class citizenship" : race, urban development, and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century
African American civil rights workers -- Arkansas -- Biography
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Education -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Education
Civil rights movements
Race relations
School integration
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Arkansas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Arkansas
Arkansas -- Little Rock
Arkansas
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781610750653
1610750659