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A remarkable collective autobiography of how a generation of women historians of the American South challenged and overcame entrenched perceptions in allegedly enlightened academia to build successful teaching and research careers not only for themselves, but also for the women who came after them. Each account is both frustrating and inspiring: there were indeed no straight paths to success, and the work for full equality is not yet over."--D...

In September 1957 nine black children tried to integrate Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School in accordance with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v Board of Education. Claiming he was acting to keep the peace, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep them out of the school. This book tells the truth about Little Rock.

In 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prohibit nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Here, editors Jacoway and Williams present a series of original and insightful papers which discuss economic, constitutional, historical, and personal aspects of the crisis and of segregation.