Title Finding the lost year : what happened when Little Rock closed its public schools / Sondra Gordy.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	LC214.23.L56 G67 2009	Available	---

Description	xxvii, 242 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-233) and index.
Summary	Drawing on personal interviews with over sixty former teachers and students, black and white, Gordy details the long-term consequences for students affected by the year that the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were closed in protest to desegregation in 1958-59.
Contents	The summer of relief turns to anxiety -- Nothing but confusion -- Where shall we go? -- Whom shall we blame? -- Enter the politicians -- Why not blame the teachers? -- The community rallies : some leaders do not.
Subject	School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	School integration.
	Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	Public schools -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	Public schools.
	Discrimination in education -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	Discrimination in education.
	African Americans -- Education -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	African Americans -- Education.
	African American students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
	African American students.
	Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations.
	Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
	Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
ISBN	9781557289001 cloth alkaline paper
	155728900X cloth alkaline paper
Sudoc No.	HI.F 3/178-8:F 56/2009