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Author:

Tougas, Shelley.

Title:

Little Rock girl 1957 : how a photograph changed the fight for integration / by Shelley Tougas.

Publisher:

Compass Point Books,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

School integration--Little Rock--Little Rock--Juvenile literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--Juvenile literature.
African American high school students--Little Rock--Little Rock--Juvenile literature.
Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
Eckford, Elizabeth,--1941---Juvenile literature.
Little Rock (Ark.)--Central High School Little Rock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63) and index.

Summary:

Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation's attention.

Series:

Captured history

ISBN:

0756545129 (pbk.)
9780756545123 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)700729386

LCCN:

2010054303

Locations:

NPSX771 -- North Polk High School (Alleman)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

BYPB851 -- Zearing Public Library (Zearing)