Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-177) and index.
Introduction: understanding the past: the challenge of Little Rock / Elizabeth Jacoway -- Little Rock and the promise of America / Sheldon Hackney -- Segregation and racism: taking up the dream again / David R. Goldfield -- Growing up segregated / George C. Wright -- Growing up integrated / Joel Williamson -- Arkansas, the Brown decision, and the 1957 Little Rock School crisis: a local perspective / John A. Kirk -- The white reaction to Brown: Arkansas, the southern manifesto, and massive resistance / Anthony J. Badger -- The contest for the soul of Orval Faubus / Roy Reed -- The lesson of Little Rock: stability, growth, and change in the American South / James C. Cobb -- The constitutional lessons of the Little Rock crisis / Kermit L. Hall -- The past as future: the Little Rock crisis and the constitution / Tony A. Freyer -- The documentary heritage of the Central High crisis: a biographical essay / Michael J. Dabrishus