Remember Little Rock
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Description
In Remember Little Rock, Erin Krutko Devlin explores public memories surrounding the iconic Arkansas school desegregation crisis of 1957 and shows how these memories were vigorously contested and sometimes deployed against the cause. Delving into a wide variety of sources, from memoirs to televised docudramas, commemoration ceremonies, and the creation of Little Rock High museums, Devlin reveals how many white moderates proclaimed Little Rock a victory for civil rights and educational equality even as segregation persisted. At the same time, African American activists, students, and their families asserted their own stories in the ongoing fight for racial justice.
Devlin also demonstrates that public memory directly bears on law and policy. She argues that the triumphal narrative of civil rights has been used to stall school desegregation, support tokenism, and to roll back federal court oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and efforts to promote diversity in public institutions.
ISBN
9781625342690
Publication Date
3-2017
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
City
Amherst
Keywords
Little Rock, Arkansas, Civil Rights, School Integration, Collective Memory
Disciplines
Cultural History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Devlin, Erin Krutko, "Remember Little Rock" (2017). History and American Studies Books. 3.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/3