Long Shadow of Little Rock A Memoir

Name: Long Shadow of Little Rock A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781557288639

ISBN-10: 1557288631

ISBN-13: 9781557288639

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daisy Bates, Eleanor. Roosevelt, Clayborne Carson, Willard B. Gatewood

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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…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 2/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Daisy Bates (1913?-1999) and her husband published the Arkansas State Press from 1941 to 1959. She served on the NAACP's national board from 1957 to 1970. In 1957 the Associated Press chose her as the Woman of the Year and one of the top ten newsmakers in the world.

Clayborne Carson lives in Palo Alto, California.