About the Author

John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates, Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award. Minnijean Brown Trickey made history in 1957 as one of the Little Rock Nine. In 1999 she received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Bill Clinton.

Reviews

As this masterly collection of essays shows, no one is better equipped than John Kirk to put the Little Rock crisis in the context of the 'long' civil rights movement in Arkansas. No one better explores the nuances of divisions within both the black and white communities or better captures the agency of African Americans in the development of race relations in the state."" - Tony Badger, University of Cambridge, author of New Deal/New South