Table of Contents

Foreword   Juan Williams     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction: The 1957 Little Rock Crisis-A Historiographical Essay   John A. Kirk     xiii
Looking Back at Little Rock   Numan V. Bartley     1
The White Citizens' Council and Resistance to School Desegregation in Arkansas   Neil R. McMillen     11
Politics and Law in the Little Rock Crisis, 1954-1957   Tony A. Freyer     27
Orval E. Faubus: Out of Socialism into Realism   Roy Reed     43
Diversity within a Racial Group: White People in Little Rock, 1957-1959   David L. Chappell     55
Power from the Pedestal: The Women's Emergency Committee and the Little Rock School Crisis   Lorraine Gates     65
The Little Rock Crisis and Postwar Black Activism in Arkansas   John A. Kirk     89
International Pressure and the U.S. Government's Response to Little Rock   Azza Salama Layton     103
After 1957: Resisting Integration in Little Rock   Ben F. Johnson III     115
Notes     135
Contributors     179
Index     181