Remember Little Rock / Erin Krutko Devlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devlin, Erin Krutko, author.

Series:

Public history in historical perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).

School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

School integration.

Collective memory.

African American students.

History.

Arkansas--Little Rock.

African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

Collective memory--Arkansas--Little Rock.

Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.

Little Rock (Ark.).

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

Summary:

In Remember Little Rock Erin Krutko Devlin explores public memories surrounding the iconic Arkansas school desegregation crisis of 1957 and shows how these memories were vigorously contested and sometimes deployed against the cause. Delving into a wide variety of sources, from memoirs to televised docudramas, commemoration ceremonies, and the creation of Little Rock High museums, Devlin reveals how many white moderates proclaimed Little Rock a victory for civil rights and educational equality even as segregation persisted. At the same time, African American activists, students, and their families asserted their own stories in the ongoing fight for racial justice. Devlin also demonstrates that public memory directly bears on law and policy. She argues that the triumphal narrative of civil rights has been used to stall school desegregation, support tokenism, and to roll back federal court oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and efforts to promote diversity in public institutions. Remember Little Rock examines the chasm between the rhetoric of the "post- civil rights" era and the reality of enduring racial inequality. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Defining Successful Integration 13

2 Obscuring Effective Mechanisms of Change 43

3 Recasting Moderation and Resistance 71

4 Displacing Blame 111

5 Resisting Historical Erasure 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625342690

1625342691

9781625342683

1625342683

OCLC:

966256564