The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir

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At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton referred to as her “essentially the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time.” Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn’t be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was once banned all the way through the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus referred to as out the National Guard to enclose all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court’s 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the college with the assistance of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the primary time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to offer protection to the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates’s own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.

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