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The Little Rock Nine

2014
Describes the unfair system of education in the United States called segregation and how nine African American students attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Little Rock Central High

50 years later
2007
A retrospective look at the 1957 integration of nine African-American students into Little Rock Central High School that provides a look at the school fifty years later and discusses the event.

Cracking the wall

the struggles of the Little Rock Nine
2007
This book is a brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Carry the rock

race, football, and the soul of an American city
2010
Chronicles a season of Little Rock Central High School football, comparing and contrasting the race relations of the team to 1957 when the school was first desegregated, to show what has and has not changed in fifty years.

Turning points

Little Rock Nine
2008
A graphic novel adaptation of the story of nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and focuses on the friendship of William McNally and Thomas Johnson, the son of William's family's maid.

A life is more than a moment

the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High
1999
A photographic documentary of the events of 1957 when the governor of Arkansas moved to block desegregation of public schools by calling out the national guard to keep nine African-American students from entering Little Rock's Central High.

School desegregation and the story of the Little Rock Nine

2008
Presents the true story of nine students who, in 1957, became the first African-Americans to enroll in the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the discrimination they faced on a daily basis.

Fire from the rock

2007
Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.

The lions of Little Rock

2013
Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.

Daisy Bates

civil rights crusader
2003
A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s.

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