| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. By John A. Kirk. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xx, 243 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2496-X.)

Redefining the Color Line attempts to illustrate the importance of local civil rights leadership on the successful desegregation of public education in Little Rock, Arkansas. While there are numerous accounts of Little Rock's school desegregation crisis, John A. Kirk contends that the importance of local black struggles both against the city's white politicians and against the state and national civil rights organizations has been overlooked. Moreover, Kirk contends that, in order to understand Little Rock's civil rights struggles, we must look to the decade before the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954). To Kirk, the school crisis must be situated within the history of Little Rock's local civil rights movement.

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