National Archives: The Little Rock Nine
The National Archives and Records Administration’s Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch holds several reels of unedited footage of the events that unfolded at Little Rock. This footage includes images of the 101st Army Airborne escorting the Little Rock Nine, soldiers marching in formation, and commanding officers handing out orders.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library also holds several items in its collections such as press releases, correspondence between President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus, speech drafts, and more.
To learn more about the National Archives’ collections related to the crisis and view the footage, visit here.
Bibliography
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.
Blossom, 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.
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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.
The Bobby L. Roberts Library combines the archival holdings of two institutions, UA Little Rock and the Central Arkansas Library System's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, under one roof.
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