Understanding the Little Rock Crisis

by Jacoway, Elizabeth; Williams, C. Fred

• ISBN13: 9781557285300
• ISBN10: 1557285306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

In 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prohibit nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Here, editors Jacoway and Williams present a series of original and insightful papers which discuss economic, constitutional, historical, and personal aspects of the crisis and of segregation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Introduction: Understanding the Past: The Challenge of Little Rock	1	(22)
Elizabeth Jacoway
Little Rock and the Promise of America	23	(6)
Sheldon Hackney
Segregation and Racism: Taking Up the Dream Again	29	(16)
David R. Goldfield
Growing Up Segregated	45	(12)
George C. Wright
Growing Up Integrated	57	(10)
Joel Williamson
Arkansas, the Brown Decision, and the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis: A Local Perspective	67	(16)
John A. Kirk
The White Reaction to Brown: Arkansas, the Southern Manifesto, and Massive Resistance	83	(16)
Anthony J. Badger
The Contest for the Soul of Orval Faubus	99	(8)
Roy Reed
The Lesson of Little Rock: Stability, Growth, and Change in the American South	107	(16)
James C. Cobb
The Constitutional Lessons of the Little Rock Crisis	123	(18)
Kermit L. Hall
The Past As Future: The Little Rock Crisis and the Constitution	141	(12)
Tony A. Freyer
The Documentary Heritage of the Central High Crisis: A Bibliographical Essay	153	(10)
Michael J. Dabrishus
Notes	163	(16)
Contributors	179	(2)
Index	181