ABOUT THIS BOOK

Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk’s essays, two of which have never been published before. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the larger story of the African American struggle for freedom and equality in Arkansas. Examining key episodes in state history from before the New Deal to the present, Kirk covers a wide range of topics that include the historiography of the school crisis; the impact of the New Deal; early African American politics and mass mobilization; race, gender, and the civil rights movement; the role of white liberals in the struggle; and the intersections of race and city planning policy. Kirk unearths many previously neglected individuals, organizations, and episodes, and provides a thought-provoking analytical framework for understanding them.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970, for which he won the 2003 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

REVIEWS

“An authentic discussion must take place in order to challenge our miseducation and denial of the historical forces that helped to shape the present.” —From the foreword “As this masterly collection of essays shows, no one is better equipped than John Kirk to put the Little Rock crisis in the context of the ‘long’ civil rights movement in Arkansas. No one better explores the nuances of divisions within both the black and white communities or better captures the agency of African Americans in the development of race relations in the state.” —Tony Badger, University of Cambridge, author of New Deal / New South

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Foreword by Minnijean Brown Trickey	000
Preface	000
Acknowledgments	000
Chapter 1
The Historiography of the 1957 Little Rock Crisis: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective	000
Chapter 2
The New Deal and the Civil Rights Struggle: A Case Study of Black Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in Arkansas, 1933-1942	000
Chapter 3
Politics and the Early Civil Rights Struggle: Dr. John Marshall Robinson, the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, and Black Politics in Little Rock, 1928-1952	000
Chapter 4
Mass Mobilization and the Early Civil Rights Struggle: "He Founded a Movement"; W. H. Flowers, the Committee on Negro Organizations, and Black Activism in Arkansas, 1940-1957	000
Chapter 5
Gender and the Civil Rights Struggle: Daisy Bates, the NAACP, and the Little Rock School Crisis; A Gendered Perspective	000
Chapter 6
White Opposition and the Civil Rights Struggle: Massive Resistance and Minimum Compliance; The Origins of the 1957 Little Rock Crisis	000
Chapter 7
White Southern Activism and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Southern Regional Council and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations 1954-1974	000
Chapter 8
City Planning and the Civil Rights Struggle: "A Study in Second-Class Citizenship": Race, Urban Development, and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004	000
Notes	000
Index	000

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