Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School

by Karen Anderson

Book Overview

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in America

The desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in. On September 25, 1957, nine black students,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691092931
• ISBN13: 9780691092935
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"