The Long Shadow of Little Rock

A Memoir

Daisy Bates

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Year: 2007
• ISBN:
  9781610752473
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

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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