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Genre/Form: | Young adult literature, American Electronic books History Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Tougas, Shelley. Little Rock girl 1957. Mankato, Minn. : Compass Point Books, ©2012 (DLC) 2010054303 (OCoLC)700729386 |
Named Person: | Elizabeth Eckford; Elizabeth Eckford; Elizabeth Eckford; Elizabeth Eckford |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shelley Tougas |
ISBN: | 9780756565343 0756565340 |
OCLC Number: | 1191818676 |
Target Audience: | Middle School.; 1010 |
Description: | 1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents: | Crisis in Little Rock -- Quest for equal rights -- Two symbolic photos -- The American dream. |
Series Title: | Captured history. |
Responsibility: | by Shelley Tougas. |
More information: |
Abstract:
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.
Nine African-American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school- a young girl being taunted, harassed, and threatened by an angry mob- that grabbed the world's attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. In defiance of a federal court order, Governor Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering the all-white Central High School. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. -- from Back Cover.
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