The Long Shadow of Little Rock
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The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

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The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

About this book

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.

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INDEX

Abbott, Robert S., Civil Rights Award, 136
Afro-American, 89
Alford, Dale, 181
Arkansas, University of, 50, 134, 160
Arkansas Democrat, 155
Arkansas Gazette, 93, 111–12, 149–50, 180
Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Company, 176
Arkansas Power and Light Company, 176
Arkansas State Board of Education, 49, 51
Arkansas State Press, 3, 31–42, 44–48, 53–54, 86, 158, 165, 170–78, 200, 202, 221, 228
Arkansas Supreme Court, 43
Ashmore, Harry, 93, 112, 180–81
Auten, Lawrence C., 40, 41, 42
Bass, Harry, 66, 156
Bates, L. C., 2–3, 4, 32–33, 37–42, 60, 63, 66, 94–96, 111, 165, 166, 167, 172, 175–77, 184, 195, 197, 201, 202, 221, 222, 225
Batesburg, South Carolina, 45–46
Bean, Jesse, 40
Birmingham, Alabama, 44
“Black Muslims,” 224–25
Blossom, Virgil T., 51, 63, 72–73, 87, 101–2, 120, 121, 126, 129, 149, 181
Boehler, Richard, 118–19
Booker, J. R., 110, 167
Booker, Simeon, 128, 149
Branton, Wiley, 52, 57, 63, 82, 83
Brians, R. E., 149
Brooks, John, 121
Brooks, Joseph, 109
Brown, Mrs. Imogene, 88, 89, 90, 91
Brown, Minnijean, 59, 104, 106, 113, 115–22, 129, 164, 202, 215, 217, 230
Brown, Robert R., 157
Brown, W. B., 117
Brown, Mrs. W. b., 117, 118–19
Brucker, Wilbur M., 148
Camp Robinson, 34, 35, 36, 100
Campbell, Peter, 177
Campbell, Walter, 40
Campbell, William, 66, 87
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword to the Arkansas Edition
  8. Foreword to the First Edition
  9. I. Little Rock
  10. II. Rebirth
  11. III. Across My Desk
  12. IV. Governor Faubus Rouses the Mob
  13. V. She Walked Alone
  14. VI. Out of the Hills
  15. VII. A City Gripped by Fear
  16. VIII. The Volcano of Hate Erupts
  17. IX. The Federal Troops Move In
  18. X. Arrest
  19. XI. The Embattled Nine
  20. XII. The Appeal to the President
  21. XIII. Death of the State Press
  22. XIV. White Casualties
  23. XV. On Whose Shoulders
  24. XVI. How Long, how Long, . . . ?
  25. Afterword
  26. Index
  27. About the Author