Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation by Elizabeth Jacoway

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

Elizabeth Jacoway

496 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced
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In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's i...

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