Breaking the silence : Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963 / by Sara Alderman Murphy ; edited by Patrick C. Murphy, II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Sara Alderman, 1924-1995.

Contributor:

Murphy, Patrick C., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (Little Rock, Ark.).

Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

Segregation in education.

Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (Little Rock, Ark.)--History.

Women, White--Political activity--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

Women, White.

History.

Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.

Little Rock (Ark.).

Arkansas--Little Rock.

Physical Description:

xviii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1997.

Summary:

After the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis of 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus invoked a hastily passed state law to close the schools rather than integrate them. This is the story of the WEC, the Women's Emergency Committee, a group of respectable, middle-class white women who fought against the law. With passion and sensitivity, Murphy recounts the challenges and triumphs of that battle, which issued from the mutual link Southern white women shared with disfranchised African Americans in their common goal for full citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index.

ISBN:

1557284563

OCLC:

36330857