The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History

Since the years after the Civil War, African Americans in the South had faced terrible discrimination in the form of Jim Crow laws, which kept the races separate in many public places. The Little Rock Nine, nine brave African-American high school students, overcame the vicious taunts and threatened violence of racist whites to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School. Through the personal stories of the determined students and the civil rights leaders who helped them bring...
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Since the years after the Civil War, African Americans in the South had faced terrible discrimination in the form of Jim Crow laws, which kept the races separate in many public places. The Little Rock Nine, nine brave African-American high school students, overcame the vicious taunts and threatened violence of racist whites to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School. Through the personal stories of the determined students and the civil rights leaders who helped them bring the races together in public schools, Robert Somerlott examines one of the most controversial civil rights battles in American history.