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In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's integration plan by calling out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school. Newspapers across the nation ran front-page photographs of whites, both students and parents, screaming epithets at the quiet, well-dressed black children. President Eisenhower reluctantly deployed troops from the 101st Airborne, both outside…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2007Free Press · 496 pages · 9780743297196
School integrationCentral High School (Little Rock, Ark.)EducationAfrican AmericansHistorySchool integration--historyAfrican americans--education--historyLc214.23.l56 j33 2007