Beyond Little Rock : the origins and legacies of the Central High crisis / John A. Kirk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirk, John A., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

African Americans--Education--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Arkansas--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

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

School integration.

Arkansas--Race relations--History--20th century.

Arkansas.

Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Little Rock (Ark.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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.</div>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The 1957 Little Rock Crisis; 2. The New Deal and the Civil Rights Struggle; 3. Politics and the Early Civil Rights Struggle; 4. Mass Mobilization and the Early Civil Rights Struggle; 5. Gender and the Civil Rights Struggle; 6. White Opposition to the Civil Rights Struggle; 7. White Support for the Civil Rights Struggle; 8. City Planning and the Civil Rights Struggle; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-200) and index.

ISBN:

1-61075-065-9