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An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
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Paperback. A collection of essays which explores various topics, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Editor(s): Kirk, John A. Num Pages: 148 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil R. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III.A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical ... Read more
This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil R. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III.A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288745
SKU
V9781557288745
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About
John A. Kirk is professor of U.S. history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis; Martin Luther King Jr.; and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970. He is also the editor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil ... Read more
Reviews for An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
The issues that combined so explosively in Little Rock in 1957 continue to roil American politics and law. That is why Americans continue to study what happened there for some insight into who we really are and where we are headed in this new century. The issue is still how to take race out of the equation when it comes ... Read more