Little Rock girl 1957 : how a photograph changed the fight for integration / by Shelley Tougas.
2012
LC214.23.L56 T68 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Little Rock girl 1957 : how a photograph changed the fight for integration / by Shelley Tougas.
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ISBN
9780756544409
0756544408
9780756545123 (pbk.)
0756545129 (pbk.)
0756544408
9780756545123 (pbk.)
0756545129 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Mankato, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2012.
Language
English
Description
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Call Number
LC214.23.L56 T68 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
379.2/630976773
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Captured history.
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