An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis

This collection of essays, "An Epitaph for Little Rock," offers a comprehensive exploration of the defining moment in America's civil rights struggle through local white and black responses, gender issues, politics, and law.

With an informative historiographical essay from John A.

Kirk, this book provides essential reading on the crisis and its continued relevance in American politics and law today.

Distinguished southern historians Numan V.

Bartley, Neil R.

McMillen, Tony A.

Freyer, Roy Reed, David L.

Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A.

Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F.

Johnson III contribute to this body of work, providing a diverse range of perspectives on the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis.