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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
To learn more about the National Archives’ collections related to the crisis and view the footage, visit\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alford, Dale. The Case of the Sleeping People:\u00a0 Finally Awakened by Little Rock School <\/em>Frustrations<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 s.n., 1959.<\/p>\n Anderson, Karen. Little Rock:\u00a0 Race and Resistance at Central High School<\/em>.\u00a0 Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n Arkansas Gazette.\u00a0\u00a0Crisis in the South:\u00a0 the Little Rock Story; a Selection of Editorials.<\/em>\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Arkansas Gazette, 1959.<\/p>\n Ashmore, Harry S.\u00a0Civil Rights and Wrongs:\u00a0 a Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1994<\/em>. New York:\u00a0 Pantheon Books, 1994.<\/p>\n Ashmore, Harry S.\u00a0\u00a0The Negro and the Schools<\/em>.\u00a0 Chapel Hill, NC:\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, 1954.<\/p>\n Baker, James T.\u00a0\u00a0Brooks Hays<\/em>.\u00a0 Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n Bartley, Numan V. The Rise of Massive Resistance:\u00a0 Race and Politics in the South <\/em>During the<\/em>\u00a01950’s.<\/em>\u00a0 Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1969.<\/p>\n Bartley, Numan V.\u00a0\u00a0Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction<\/em>.\u00a0 Baltimore:\u00a0 John Hopkins Press, 1975.<\/p>\n Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 1987.<\/p>\n Beals, Melba Pattillo.\u00a0 Warriors Don’t Cry<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Washington Square Press, 1995.<\/p>\n Beals, Melba Pattillo.\u00a0\u00a0White is a State of Mind:\u00a0 a Memoir<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999.<\/p>\n Blossom, Virgil.\u00a0It has Happened Here<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harper and Brothers, 1959.<\/p>\n Brewer, Vivion Lenon.\u00a0The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock:\u00a0 1958-1963, The Struggle to <\/em>Save Public Education at Central High<\/em>. Fort Bragg, CA:\u00a0 Lost Coast Press, 1999.<\/p>\n Brodie, Ralph and Marvin Schwartz. \u00a0Central in Our Lives:\u00a0 Voice from Little Rock Central <\/em>High School, 1957-59<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2008.<\/p>\n Brown, Robert L.\u00a0Defining Moments<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2010.<\/p>\n Brown, Robert R.\u00a0Bigger than Little Rock.<\/em>\u00a0 Greenwich, CT:\u00a0 Seabury Press, 1958.<\/p>\n Brownell, Herbert.\u00a0Advising Ike:\u00a0 the Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell. <\/em>Lawrence, KS:\u00a0 University Press of Kansas, 1993.<\/p>\n Cate, George M.\u00a0The Good Ground of Central High:\u00a0 Little Rock Central High School and <\/em>Legendary Coach Wilson Matthews<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Central Arkansas Library System, 2008.<\/p>\n Cobb, Osro.\u00a0\u00a0Osro Cobb of Arkansas:\u00a0 Memoirs of Historical Significance<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Carol Griffee.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Rose Publishing Company, 1989.<\/p>\n Counts, Will. \u00a0A Life is More than a Moment:\u00a0 the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central <\/em>High<\/em>.\u00a0 Bloomington, IN:\u00a0 Indiana University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n Cox, Brian. Tiger Pride:\u00a0 One Hundred Years of Little Rock Central High Football<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Arkansas Business, 2005.<\/p>\n Creger, Ralph.\u00a0\u00a0This is What We Found; How a White Father and Son in Little Rock Came to <\/em>Champion Equal Rights and Opportunities for Negroes<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 L. Stuart, 1960.<\/p>\n Egerton, John.\u00a0\u00a0Speak Now Against the Day:\u00a0 the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement <\/em>in the South<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Knopf, 1994.<\/p>\n Faubus, Orval.\u00a0Down from the Hills<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR:\u00a0 Pioneer Press, 1980.<\/p>\n Freyer, Tony Allan.\u00a0\u00a0The Little Rock Crisis:\u00a0 a Constitutional Interpretation.<\/em>\u00a0 Westport:\u00a0 CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.<\/p>\n Freyer, Tony Allan.\u00a0\u00a0Little Rock on Trial:\u00a0 Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation<\/em>. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007.<\/p>\n Gordy,\u00a0Sondra.\u00a0Finding the Lost Year:\u00a0 What Happened When Little Rock Closed its <\/em>Publi<\/em>c\u00a0Schools<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2009.<\/p>\n Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer.\u00a0\u00a0Voices of Freedom:\u00a0 an Oral History of the Civil Rights <\/em>Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Hampton Books, 1990.<\/p>\n Hays, Brooks. A Hotbed of Tranquility:\u00a0 My Life in Five Worlds<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 MacMillan Press, 1968.<\/p>\n Hays, Brooks.\u00a0\u00a0Politics is My Parish:\u00a0 an Autobiography<\/em>.\u00a0 Baton Rouge, LA:\u00a0 Louisiana State University Press, 1981.<\/p>\n Hays, Brooks. A Southern Moderate Speaks<\/em>.\u00a0 Chapel Hill, NC:\u00a0 UNC Press, 1959.<\/p>\n Huckaby, Elizabeth.\u00a0\u00a0Crisis at Central High, Little Rock, 1957-58<\/em>.\u00a0 Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.<\/p>\n Jacoway, Elizabeth.\u00a0\u00a0Turn Away Thy Son:\u00a0 Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked a Nation<\/em>. New York:\u00a0 Free Press, 2007.<\/p>\n Jacoway, Elizabeth and C. Fred Williams, ed.\u00a0\u00a0Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: an<\/em>\u00a0Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 1999.<\/p>\n Jennings, Jay. Carry the Rock:\u00a0 Race, Football and the Soul of an American City<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Rodale Books, 2010.<\/p>\n Key, V.O.\u00a0Southern Politics in the State and Nation<\/em>. New York:\u00a0 A.A. Knopf, 1949.<\/p>\n Kirk, John A.\u00a0Beyond Little Rock:\u00a0 the Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis<\/em>. Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2007.<\/p>\n Kirk, John A., ed.\u00a0An Epitaph for Little Rock:\u00a0 a Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the <\/em>Central High Crisis<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas, 2008.<\/p>\n Lanier, Carlotta Walls.\u00a0\u00a0A Mighty Long Way:\u00a0 My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central <\/em>High Schoo<\/em>l.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Random House Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n Lanier, Catherine M,\u00a0Race, Politics and Memory:\u00a0 a Documentary History of the Little <\/em>Rock School Crisis<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2007.<\/p>\n Margolick, David.\u00a0Elizabeth and Hazel:\u00a0 Two Women of Little Rock<\/em>.\u00a0 New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n McMath, Sidney.\u00a0\u00a0Promises Kept: a Memoir<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2003.<\/p>\n McMillen, Neil R.\u00a0\u00a0The Citizens’ Council:\u00a0 Organized Resistance to the Second <\/em>Reconstruction<\/em>, 1954-1964.\u00a0 Urban-Champaign, IL:\u00a0 University of Illinois Press, 1994.<\/p>\n Murphy, Sara Alderman.\u00a0\u00a0Breaking the Silence:\u00a0 Little Rock’s Women’s Emergency <\/em>Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2007.<\/p>\n Nichols, David A.\u00a0\u00a0A Matter of Justice:\u00a0 Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights <\/em>Revolution<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon & Schuster, 2008.<\/p>\n Ogden, Dunbar H.\u00a0\u00a0My Father Said Yes:\u00a0 a White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration<\/em>. Nashville, TN:\u00a0 Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n O’Hara, Mackie and Alex Richardson, ed.\u00a0Beyond Central, Toward Acceptance: a <\/em>Collection of Oral Histories from Students of Little Rock Central High<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2010.<\/p>\n Peltason, Jack Walter.\u00a0 Fifty-eight Lonely Men:\u00a0 Southern Federal Judges and School <\/em>Desegregation<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harcourt Brace, 1961.<\/p>\n Perry, Ravi K.\u00a0\u00a0The Little Rock Crisis:\u00a0 What Desegregation Politics Says About Us<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.<\/p>\n Pipes, Kasey S.\u00a0\u00a0Ike’s Final Battle:\u00a0 the Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality<\/em>. Los Angeles, CA:\u00a0 World Ahead Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n Reed, Roy.\u00a0\u00a0Faubus:\u00a0 the Life and Times of American Prodigal<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.<\/p>\n Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff.\u00a0\u00a0The Race Beat:\u00a0 the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, <\/em>and the Awakening of a Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.<\/p>\n Roberts, Terrence.\u00a0\u00a0Lessons from Little Rock<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2009.<\/p>\n Roy, Beth.\u00a0Bitters in the Honey:\u00a0 Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and <\/em>Time<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 1999.<\/p>\n Stockley, Grif.\u00a0\u00a0Daisy Bates:\u00a0 Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2005.<\/p>\n Stockley, Grif.\u00a0\u00a0Ruled by Race:\u00a0 Black\/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the <\/em>Present<\/em>.\u00a0 Fayetteville, AR:\u00a0 University of Arkansas Press, 2008.<\/p>\n Wilkinson, J. Harvie.\u00a0\u00a0From Brown to Bakke: the Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954-<\/em>1978.\u00a0<\/em>New York:\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n Guggenheim, Charles.\u00a0\u00a0Nine From Little Rock<\/em>.\u00a0 Washington, DC:\u00a0 Guggenheim Productions, 2005. DVD.<\/p>\n Journey <\/em>to Little Rock:\u00a0 the Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Filmakers Library, Inc., 2005. DVD.<\/p>\n Renaud, Brent.\u00a0\u00a0Little Rock Central:\u00a0 50 years later.<\/em>\u00a0 HBO Documentary Films.\u00a0 New York: Home Box Office, 2007.\u00a0 DVD.<\/p>\n The Ernest Green Story.\u00a0 Elk Grove Village, IL:\u00a0 Disney Educational Productions, 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n The <\/em>Lost Year: the Untold Story of the year Following the Crisis at Central High School<\/em>.\u00a0 Little Rock, AR: Morning Star Studio, 2007.\u00a0 DVD.<\/p>\n Draper, Sharon M.\u00a0\u00a0Fire From the Rock<\/em>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dutton Children’s Books, 2007.<\/p>\n Fitzgerald, Stephanie.\u00a0\u00a0The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration<\/em>.\u00a0 Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2007.<\/p>\n Fradin, Judith Bloom.\u00a0\u00a0The Power of One:\u00a0 Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Clarion Books, 2004.<\/p>\n Krumm, Brian.\u00a0\u00a0The Little Rock Nine: a Primary Source Exploration of the Battle for School <\/em>Integration.<\/em>\u00a0 North Mankato, MN: Capstone, Press, 2015.<\/p>\n Lucas, Eileen and Mark Anthony.\u00a0\u00a0Cracking the Wall:\u00a0 the Struggles of the Little Rock Nine<\/em>. Minneapolis, MN:\u00a0 Carolrhoda Books, 1997.<\/p>\n Magoon, Kekla.\u00a0\u00a0Today the World is Watching You:\u00a0 the Little Rock Nine and the Fight for <\/em>School Integration, 1957.\u00a0 <\/em>Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2011.<\/p>\n Miller, Jake. The Little Rock Nine:\u00a0 Young Champions for School<\/em> Integration.\u00a0 New York: PowerKids Press, 2004.<\/p>\n O’Neill, Laurie A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Little Rock:\u00a0 the Desegregation of Central High<\/em>.\u00a0 Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 1994.<\/p>\n Polakow, Amy.\u00a0\u00a0Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader<\/em>.\u00a0 North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 2003.<\/p>\n Somerlott, Robert.\u00a0\u00a0The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History<\/em>.\u00a0 Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n Tougas, Shelley.\u00a0\u00a0Little Rock Girl 1957:\u00a0 How a Photograph Changed the Face of <\/em>Integration<\/em>.\u00a0 North Mankato, MN:\u00a0 Capstone Press, 2011.<\/p>\n Walker, Paul Robert.\u00a0\u00a0Remember Little Rock:\u00a0 the Time, the People, the Stories<\/em>.\u00a0 Washington, D.C.:\u00a0 National Geographic, 2009.<\/p>\n\t The Bobby L. 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