Lessons from Little Rock / Terrence Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Terrence J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roberts, Terrence J.

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

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).

African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography.

African American students.

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

School integration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Little Rock, Arkansas : Butler Center Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sober news reports of a U.S.Army convoy rumbling across the bridge into Little Rock cannot overpower this intimate, powerful, personal account of the integration of Little Rock Central High School.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

1. My Moment as a Fly

2. First Grade Executives

3. A Minister Who Learned the Wrong Lesson

4. Saved by the West Ninth Street Taxi

5. Finding Dad Before He Drank Up the Paycheck

6. "Stretch it Out"

7. Three Dollars, an Eel, and Bright Kids

8. The All-White Electricians' Union

9. "The Little Rock Seventeen"

Photographs

10. Daisy Bates and Thurgood Marshall

11. A System for Rating Insults

12. The Penknife and the Switchblade

13. The Emotional Price of Non-Violence

14. Lessons from the Barbershop and Lawn-Mowing Clients

15. Unexpected Move to Los Angeles

16. Those Who Would Re-Write History

17. Consulting for the Little Rock School District

18. Much to Learn

19. Not a Linear Journey

Afterword

The Little Rock Nine Foundation

Appendix

Philander Smith College Remarks

The Ongoing Battle for Equality

Nine Who Dared

About the Author.

Notes:

"One of the 'Little Rock Nine'."

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-935106-45-7

OCLC:

903963262