Title First twenty-five : an oral history of the desegretation of Little Rock's public junior high schools / edited by LaVerne Bell-Tolliver

Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2017 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Foreword / Joel E. Anderson -- Setting the context -- Phase two : historical introduction : Junior high desegregation -- East Side Junior High. Equilla Banks Webb ; Alfreda Brown ; Myrna Davis Washington ; Shirley Hickman ; Sarah Jordan Talley ; Glenda Wilson -- Forest Heights Junior High. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver -- Pulaski Heights Junior High. Kathleen Bell ; Pinkie Thompson -- Southwest Junior High. Henry Rodgers ; Wilbunette Walls Randolph -- West Side Junior High. Clarence Johnson ; Alice Joiner Kimball ; Kenneth Jones ; Brenda Sims Clark ; Sandra Smith ; Alvin Terry ; Joyce Williams Warren -- What we discovered -- Recommendations Summary "Much has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock's five public junior high schools--East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side--in 1961 and 1962. The First Twenty-Five gathers the personal stories of these students some fifty years later. They recall what it was like to break down long-standing racial barriers while in their early teens--a developmental stage that often brings emotional vulnerability. In their own words, these individuals share what they saw, heard, and felt as children on the front lines of the civil rights movement, providing insight about this important time in Little Rock, and how these often painful events from their childhoods affected the rest of their lives."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 30, 2017) Subject School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock African American students -- Civil rights -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century Junior high schools -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Administration -- History -- 20th century EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. Junior high schools -- Administration Race relations School integration SUBJECT Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations Subject Arkansas -- Little Rock Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bell-Tolliver, LaVerne, editor ISBN 9781610756242 161075624X

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