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Winner: J.G. Ragsdale Book AwardChoice Outstanding TitleAmericans were riveted to their television sets in 1957, when a violent mob barred black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School and faced off against paratroopers sent by a reluctant President Eisenhower. That set off a firestorm of protest throughout the nation and ultimately led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Cooper v. Aaron, reaffirming Brown v. Board of Education's mandate for school integration “with all deliberate speed” and underscoring the supremacy of federal and constitutional authority over state law.Noted scholar Tony Freyer, arguably our nation's top authority on this subject, now provides a concise, lucid, and eminently teachable summary of that historic case and shows that it paved the way for later civil rights victories. He chronicles how the Little Rock school board sought court approval to table integration efforts and how the black community brought suit against the board's watered-down version of compliance. The board's request was denied by a federal appeals court and taken to the Supreme Court, where the unanimous ruling in Cooper reaffirmed federal law—but left in place th

Author

Tony Allan Freyer

Publisher

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700615360

Subjects

Law, History, Education