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    An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
    An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
    An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
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    An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis

    By John A. Kirk and Juan Williams

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    This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil R. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III. A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical essay from John A. Kirk, An Epitaph for Little Rock is essential reading on this defining moment in America's civil rights struggle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
    ISBN9781610751421
    An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis
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    Juan Williams

    Juan Antonio Williams is a prizewinning journalist and historian. He is the author of bestselling civil rights history Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. He also wrote the landmark biography of the first African American on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Enough and Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. Williams has worked as a national political correspondent, White House correspondent, and editorial writer for The Washington Post; NPR talk show host; written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Ebony. He is currently senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a columnist for The Hill. 

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