About the Author

John A. Kirk is a lecturer in history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the recipient of the 1993 F. Roy Hampton Award and the 1994 Walter L. Brown Award for best journal article on Arkansas history. He has contributed essays to The Making of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Anthony Badger and Brian Ward, and Gender and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Peter Ling and Sara Welfare.

Reviews

"The author has redefined the well-known story of the Little Rock crisis as a product of long-term developments among black citizens in Arkansas." - David Chappell, University of Arkansas