UPI

On This Day: Gov. Faubus blocks Little Rock Nine from school

Sept. 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. After ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

What happened after Central High crisis?

Under a state law passed at the instigation of Gov. Orval E. Faubus, Little Rock voters in September 1958 were given the stark choice of shutting down the city's four high schools as public ...
insider.si.edu

Understanding the Little Rock crisis : an exercise in remembrance and reconciliation / edited by Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams

Introduction: understanding the past: the challenge of Little Rock / Elizabeth Jacoway -- Little Rock and the promise of America / Sheldon Hackney -- Segregation and racism: taking up the dream again ...
Publishers Weekly

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

Although the ingredients for a groundbreaking account of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School are here, this account by the niece of the city's superintendent of schools falls ...