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Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis that Shocked the Nation
Elizabeth Jacoway
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Description for Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis that Shocked the Nation
Paperback. In September 1957 nine black children tried to integrate Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School in accordance with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v Board of Education. Claiming he was acting to keep the peace, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep them out of the school. This book tells the truth about Little Rock. Num Pages: 496 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; JFSL3; JNSV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 735.
In September 1957 nine black children tried to integrate Arkansas’s Little Rock Central High School in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Claiming he was acting to keep the peace, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep them out of the school. After a lengthy standoff, President Eisenhower called in the 101st Airborne and reluctantly, slowly, but forcibly began to integrate the school. The standoff became a rallying cry for Southern segregationists and a marker of the country’s shame.
The accounts that have been so mythologized over the years leave ... Read more
In September 1957 nine black children tried to integrate Arkansas’s Little Rock Central High School in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Claiming he was acting to keep the peace, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep them out of the school. After a lengthy standoff, President Eisenhower called in the 101st Airborne and reluctantly, slowly, but forcibly began to integrate the school. The standoff became a rallying cry for Southern segregationists and a marker of the country’s shame.
The accounts that have been so mythologized over the years leave ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288783
SKU
V9781557288783
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About Elizabeth Jacoway
Elizabeth Jacoway grew up in Little Rock, two years behind the class of the Little Rock Nine. After earning her PhD at the University of North Carolina, she returned to Arkansas and has studied southern history and the desegregation crisis ever since. Her previous publications include Understanding the Little Rock Crisis and Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Turn Away Thy Son ... Read more
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