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Rise of Massive Resistance (1969), and Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions

(2000). The desegregation of schools in Louisiana is recounted in Ruby

Bridges, Through My Eyes(1999), and Liva Baker, The Second Battle of

New Orleans(1996). Charlayne Hunter-Gault, In My Place(1992), and

Robert Pratt, We Shall Not Be Moved(2002), look at the desegregation of

the University of Georgia (2002). Constance Curry, Silver Rights(1995), is

a compelling story of a black Mississippi family that desegregated a white

school in the Mississippi delta. Ronald Formisano, Boston Against Busing

(1991), and J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground(1985), look at the crisis

involving school busing.

Little Rock Crisis

Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP, presents her moving story in The

Long Shadow of Little Rock(1962). Orval Faubus, the demagogic Arkansas

governor, has collected editorial cartoons and columns in Down from

the Hills(1980), and is the subject of Roy Reed’s convincing biography,

Faubus(1997). Virgil Blossom, It Has Happened Here(1959), explains the

whirlwind that the school superintendent found himself in. The student

perspective comes from Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry(1994).

Vice principal Elizabeth Huckaby, Crisis at Central High(1980), highlights

the tense actions within the school. As US attorney general, Herbert

Brownell, Advising Ike(1993), explains how the president reacted to civil

rights issues. A frustrated parent, Sara Alderman Murphy, traces her fight to

reopen the schools in Breaking the Silence(1997). Brooks Hays, A Southern

Moderate Speaks(1959), looks at the crisis that cost him his congressional

seat. Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams, Understanding the Little Rock

Crisis(1999), and Irving Spitzberg, Racial Politics in Little Rock(1987),

provide useful overviews. John Kirk, Redefining the Color Line(2002),

looks at local black activism in Little Rock.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Two women who started the Montgomery bus boycott have written memoirs:

Rosa Parks, My Story (1992), and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The

Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It(1987). Douglas

Brinkley’s biography, Rosa Parks(2000), is the best introduction to this hero-

ine. Martin Luther King, Stride toward Freedom(1958), provides the story

and philosophy of the boycott’s leader. Fred Gray examines the legal chal-

lenges in Bus Ride to Justice(1994). Stewart Burns, Daybreak of Freedom

(1997), provides firsthand material related to the boycott. Jack Bass, Taming

the Storm(1993), is a biography of federal judge Frank Johnson of Alabama.

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