Product Details
Free Press, January 2007
eBook, 496 pages
ISBN-10: 1416548289
ISBN-13: 9781416548287
Preface
INTRODUCTION
Miscegenation and the Beast
CHAPTER 1
Defining The Debate: Harry Ashmore
CHAPTER 2
Massive Resistance: Jim Johnson
CHAPTER 3
Paternalistic Gentleman: Archie House and the Establishment
CHAPTER 4
Blue-Collar Opposition: Amis Guthridge
CHAPTER 5
A Time of Panic: Virgil Blossom
INTERREGNUM
The Chosen Few
CHAPTER 6
The Crisis Breaks: Orval Faubus
CHAPTER 7
The Minefield in the Middle: Brooks Hays
CHAPTER 8
In Search of Compromise: Faubus, Hays, and Eisenhower
CHAPTER 9
Central High School, Act One: Daisy Bates
CHAPTER 10
Into the Cauldron: The Little Rock Nine
CHAPTER 11
A Crisis of Leadership: Robert R. Brown and the Civic Elite
CHAPTER 12
Torments Behind Closed Doors: Minnijean Brown
CHAPTER 13
The Battle In the Courts: Richard C. Butler
CHAPTER 14
Empty Schools: Wiley Branton
CHAPTER 15
The Women Organize: Vivion Brewer
CHAPTER 16
Rebirth: Everett Tucke
CHAPTER 17
The New Elite Consensus: Gaston Williamson
CONCLUSION
A Bang and a Whimper
AFTERWORD
A Note on Miscegenation
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index