Breaking the Silence: The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963

by Sara Alderman Murphy

Book Overview

The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis did not end in1957 when President Eisenhower sent a portion of the first Airborne Division to protect nine black students. The turmoil was entering its second year in 1958 when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus invoked a hastily passed state law to close the high schools rather than obey the federal court orders that would integrate them.

A group of respectable, middle-class white women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557285152
• ISBN13: 9781557285157
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"