About the Book

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990as Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her athe most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time.a 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 Eisenhowerathe 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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 238 pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 1557288631

Publication Date: Oct. 1st, 2007

ISBN-13: 9781557288639

Dimensions: 5.61 x 7.93 x 0.73 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.75 lbs

• Categories: Cultural Heritage Biography & Cultural Heritage Autobiography South State History