Books
Alford, Dale. The Case of the Sleeping People: Finally Awakened by Little Rock School
Frustrations. Little Rock, AR: s.n., 1959.
Anderson, Karen. Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Arkansas Gazette. Crisis in the South: the Little Rock Story; a Selection of Editorials. Little
Rock, AR: Arkansas Gazette, 1959.
Ashmore, Harry S. Civil Rights and Wrongs: a Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1994.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
Ashmore, Harry S. The Negro and the Schools. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 1954.
Baker, James T. Brooks Hays. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1990.
Bartley, Numan V. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South
During the 1950’s. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1969.
Bartley, Numan V. Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction. Baltimore: John Hopkins
Press, 1975.
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas
Press, 1987.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don’t Cry. New York: Washington Square Press, 1995.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. White is a State of Mind: a Memoir. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999.
Blosson, Virgil. It has Happened Here. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959.
Brewer, Vivion Lenon. The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock: 1958-1963, The Struggle to
Save Public Education at Central High. Fort Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Press, 1999.
Brodie, Ralph and Marvin Schwartz. Central in Our Lives: Voice from Little Rock Central
High School, 1957-59. Little Rock, AR: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2008.
Brown, Robert L. Defining Moments. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2010.
Brown, Robert R. Bigger than Little Rock. Greenwich, CT: Seabury Press, 1958.
Brownell, Herbert. Advising Ike: the Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Cate, George M. The Good Ground of Central High: Little Rock Central High School and
Legendary Coach Wilson Matthews. Little Rock, AR: Central Arkansas Library System,
2008.
Cobb, Osro. Osro Cobb of Arkansas: Memoirs of Historical Significance. Edited by Carol
Griffee. Little Rock, AR: Rose Publishing Company, 1989.
Counts, Will. A Life is More than a Moment: the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central
High. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Cox, Brian. Tiger Pride: One Hundred Years of Little Rock Central High Football. Little
Rock, AR: Arkansas Business, 2005.
Creger, Ralph. This is What We Found; How a White Father and Son in Little Rock Came to
Champion Equal Rights and Opportunities for Negroes. New York: L. Stuart, 1960.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement
in the South. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Faubus, Orval. Down from the Hills. Little Rock, AR: Pioneer Press, 1980.
Freyer, Tony Allan. The Little Rock Crisis: a Constitutional Interpretation. Westport: CT:
Greenwood Press, 1984.
Freyer, Tony Allan. Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Gordy, Sondra. Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed its
Public Schools. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom: an Oral History of the Civil Rights
Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Hampton Books, 1990.
Hays, Brooks. A Hotbed of Tranquility: My Life in Five Worlds. New York: MacMillan
Press, 1968.
Hays, Brooks. Politics is My Parish: an Autobiography. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana
State University Press, 1981.
Hays, Brooks. A Southern Moderate Speaks. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1959.
Huckaby, Elizabeth. Crisis at Central High, Little Rock, 1957-58. Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
Jacoway, Elizabeth. Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked a Nation.
New York: Free Press, 2007.
Jacoway, Elizabeth and C. Fred Williams, ed. Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: an
Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas
Press, 1999.
Jennings, Jay. Carry the Rock: Race, Football and the Soul of an American City. New
York: Rodale Books, 2010.
Key, V.O. Southern Politics in the State and Nation. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1949.
Kirk, John A. Beyond Little Rock: the Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis.
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2007.
Kirk, John A., ed. An Epitaph for Little Rock: a Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the
Central High Crisis. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas, 2008.
Lanier, Carlotta Walls. A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central
High School. New York: Random House Publishing, 2007.
Lanier, Catherine M, Race, Politics and Memory: a Documentary History of the Little
Rock School Crisis. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2007.
Margolick, David. Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2011.
McMath, Sidney. Promises Kept: a Memoir. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2003.
McMillen, Neil R. The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second
Reconstruction, 1954-1964. Urban-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Murphy, Sara Alderman. Breaking the Silence: Little Rock’s Women’s Emergency
Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas
Press, 2007.
Nichols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights
Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Ogden, Dunbar H. My Father Said Yes: a White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
O’Hara, Mackie and Alex Richardson, ed. Beyond Central, Toward Acceptance: a
Collection of Oral Histories from Students of Little Rock Central High. Little Rock, AR:
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2010.
Peltason, Jack Walter. Fifty-eight Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School
Desegregation. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961.
Perry, Ravi K. The Little Rock Crisis: What Desegregation Politics Says About Us. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Pipes, Kasey S. Ike’s Final Battle: the Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality.
Los Angeles, CA: World Ahead Publishing, 2007.
Reed, Roy. Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal. Fayetteville, AR:
University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle,
and the Awakening of a Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Roberts, Terrence. Lessons from Little Rock. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas
Press, 2009.
Roy, Beth. Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and
Time. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Stockley, Grif. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR:
University of Arkansas Press, 2005.
Stockley, Grif. Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the
Present. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
Wilkinson, J. Harvie. From Brown to Bakke: the Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954-
1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Media
Guggenheim, Charles. Nine From Little Rock. Washington, DC: Guggenheim Productions, 2005. DVD.
Journey to Little Rock: the Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey. New York: Filmakers
Library, Inc., 2005. DVD.
Renaud, Brent. Little Rock Central: 50 years later. HBO Documentary Films. New York:
Home Box Office, 2007. DVD.
The Ernest Green Story. Elk Grove Village, IL: Disney Educational Productions, 2005.
The Lost Year: the Untold Story of the year Following the Crisis at Central High School. Little
Rock, AR: Morning Star Studio, 2007. DVD.
Books for Children
Draper, Sharon M. Fire From the Rock. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2007.
Fitzgerald, Stephanie. The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration. Minneapolis, MN:
Compass Point Books, 2007.
Fradin, Judith Bloom. The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine. New York:
Clarion Books, 2004.
Krumm, Brian. The Little Rock Nine: a Primary Source Exploration of the Battle for School
Integration. North Mankato, MN: Capstone, Press, 2015.
Lucas, Eileen and Mark Anthony. Cracking the Wall: the Struggles of the Little Rock Nine.
Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
Magoon, Kekla. Today the World is Watching You: the Little Rock Nine and the Fight for
School Integration, 1957. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2011.
Miller Jake. The Little Rock Nine: Young Champions for School Integration. New York:
PowerKids Press, 2004.
O’Neill, Laurie A. Little Rock: the Desegregation of Central High. Minneapolis, MN:
Lerner Publishing Group, 1994.
Polakow, Amy. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader. North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 2003.
Somerlott, Robert. The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History. Berkeley
Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.
Tougas, Shelley. Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Face of
Integration. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2011.
Walker, Paul Robert. Remember Little Rock: the Time, the People, the Stories. Washington,
D.C.: National Geographic, 2009.
Carolyn Macheak is the research and scholarly communications coordinator at the UA Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Library.