Little Rock girl 1957, how a photograph changed the fight for integration, by Shelley Tougas
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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
Subject
- Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941-
- School integration
- Civil rights
- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations
- Documentary photography + History
- African American high school students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Civil rights movements + History
- African American high school students
- Racism in education
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Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification3
- Creator1
- Subject10
- Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941-
- School integration
- Civil rights
- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations
- Documentary photography + History
- African American high school students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Civil rights movements + History
- African American high school students
- Racism in education
- Is Part Of1
- Mapped to1