Bibliograph

Little Rock girl 1957, how a photograph changed the fight for integration, by Shelley Tougas

Type

Label

Little Rock girl 1957, how a photograph changed the fight for integration, by Shelley Tougas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Little Rock girl 1957

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

700729386

Responsibility statement

by Shelley Tougas

Series statement

Captured history

Sub title

how a photograph changed the fight for integration

Summary

Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation's attentionNine African-American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school- a young girl being taunted, harassed, and threatened by an angry mob- that grabbed the world's attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. In defiance of a federal court order, Governor Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering the all-white Central High School. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. -- from Back Cover

Table Of Contents

Crisis in Little Rock -- Quest for equal rights -- Two symbolic photos -- The American dream

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Creator