TY - GEN T1 - Remember Little Rock T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Devlin, Erin Krutko LA - English PP - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1012298127 AB - 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. Remember Little Rock examines the chasm between the rhetoric of the "post civil rights" era and the reality of enduring racial inequality. -- Amazon.com. OP - 246 CN - LC214.23.L56 D48 2017 SN - 9781613765029 SN - 1613765029 SN - 9781625342690 (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 9781625342683 (hardcover : alk. paper) SN - 1625342683 SN - 1625342691 (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 9781625342690 SN - 1625342691 SN - 9781625342683 KW - Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) : History. KW - Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) KW - Collective memory : Arkansas : Little Rock. KW - African American students : Arkansas : Little Rock : History : 20th century. KW - School integration : Arkansas : Little Rock : History : 20th century. KW - Little Rock (Ark.) : Race relations. KW - Mémoire collective : Arkansas : Little Rock. KW - Déségrégation en éducation : Arkansas : Little Rock : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - EDUCATION / Administration / General KW - EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General KW - HISTORY / Social History KW - African American students KW - Collective memory KW - Race relations KW - School integration KW - Arkansas : Little Rock KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -