Civil Obedience: An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954-1965

by Julianne Lewis Adams and Thomas A. Deblack

Book Overview

Among the many changes that have occurred in our country in the last forty years, few have been as significant as those heralded by the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954. By declaring racially segregated public schools unconstitutional, the court set in motion forces that resulted in the dismantling of the legal structure of Jim Crowism. The impact of the Brown decision was national in scope, but in no...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557283591
• ISBN13: 9781557283597
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"