Little Rock Girl 1957
How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
Mankato, Minn. : Compass Point Books, [2012]
Format: Book
Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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 attention.
Series: Captured history.
Contents:
Crisis in Little Rock -- Quest for equal rights -- Two symbolic photos -- The American dream.
Subjects:
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- -- Teen literature.
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- -- Juvenile literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Teen literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Juvenile literature.
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Teen literature.
African American high school students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Teen literature.
Civil rights movements -- History -- Teen literature.
Civil rights -- Teen literature.
Racism in education -- Teen literature.
Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- Teen literature.
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- -- Teen literature.
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- -- Juvenile literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Teen literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Juvenile literature.
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Teen literature.
African American high school students -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Teen literature.
Civil rights movements -- History -- Teen literature.
Civil rights -- Teen literature.
Racism in education -- Teen literature.
Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- Teen literature.
Target Audience: 1010L
ISBN:
9780756544409 (library binding)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T HISTORY Tou | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-63) and index.