Primary sources
Remembering the Little Rock Crisis in Documents
By David Darlington
On September 25, 1957, fifty years ago yesterday, nine African American students attended school at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the watchful eye of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, a mob of angry segregationists, and media the world over. On its web site, the Eisenhower Presidential Library has a good collection of primary source documents relating to the Little Rock Crisis. Readers may also be interested in the NPS historic website for Central High School (now a National Historic Site), and the Association of American University Presses’s massive “Books for Understanding” bibliography of scholarship on race relations in the U.S.
By David Darlington
On September 25, 1957, fifty years ago yesterday, nine African American students attended school at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the watchful eye of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, a mob of angry segregationists, and media the world over. On its web site, the Eisenhower Presidential Library has a good collection of primary source documents relating to the Little Rock Crisis. Readers may also be interested in the NPS historic website for Central High School (now a National Historic Site), and the Association of American University Presses’s massive “Books for Understanding” bibliography of scholarship on race relations in the U.S.
Secondary Source
."Back In Little Rock , 1957 " by Jessica Cassle.
www.school.eb.com
On the night before the nine blacks entered school , Arkansas' segregation governor Orville Faubus declared on TV that it would " not be possible to restore or to maintain order .... if forcible integration is carried out tomorrow."Faubus ordered 250 members of the Arkansas National Guard to surround the school , supposedly to keep peace, but really to keep the Little Rock Nine out .
www.school.eb.com
On the night before the nine blacks entered school , Arkansas' segregation governor Orville Faubus declared on TV that it would " not be possible to restore or to maintain order .... if forcible integration is carried out tomorrow."Faubus ordered 250 members of the Arkansas National Guard to surround the school , supposedly to keep peace, but really to keep the Little Rock Nine out .