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Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond. By Frances Lisa Baer. (New York: lfb, 2008. viii, 328 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-1-59332-260-1.)
Why should one write or read another book on the 1957 Little Rock school crisis? Frances Lisa Baer answers this question by arguing that past accounts either focused solely on the political ambition of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus or failed to emphasize southern segregationists' commitment—among both the grassroots and leadership—to interposition and the states' rights argument against Brown v. Board of Education (1954). A reader who agrees with Baer's assessment of the literature and her emphasis on states' rights will find this book of interest. . . .
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