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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):88-89; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn017
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Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked A Nation

Guy Lancaster

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture

TURN AWAY THY SON: LITTLE ROCK, THE CRISIS THAT SHOCKED A NATION. By Elizabeth Jacoway. New York: Free Press, 2007. 4771 pp. Hardbound, $30.00.

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As I write this, Little Rock is gearing up for the fiftieth anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School, that nigh archetypal event which seemed to pitch the forces of progress against those of ignorance and Southern intransigence. Precisely because it is often viewed in such starkly Manichaean terms, the Central High crisis has become the focal point in yet another battle for memory, with some former students—white students—disparaging the attention paid to the Little Rock Nine, insisting that they, too, suffered during that tumultuous school year. Further, the only statewide newspaper in Arkansas is headed up by a former player in the crisis who routinely recasts Governor Orval Faubus as a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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