Bell-Tolliver LaVerne Bell-Tolliver

First Twenty-Five (eBook, ePUB)

An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community were on you. Glenda Wilson, East Side Junior HighMuch has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock s five public junior high schools East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side in 1961 and 1962.The First Twenty-Five gathers the personal stories of these students some fifty years later. They recall what it was like to break down long-standing racial barriers while in their early teens a developmental stage that often brings emotional vulnerability. In their own words, these individuals share what they saw, heard, and felt as children on the front lines of the civil rights movement, providing insight about this important time in Little Rock, and how these often painful events from their childhoods affected the rest of their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610756242
• Artikelnr.: 50000234

Autorenporträt

LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, herself one of the "first twenty-five," is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Social Work. She has worked in the fields of mental health and child protective services and is senior pastor of Bullock Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Little Rock.