Ladies of Little Rock
Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School
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2026
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-7727-8 (ISBN)
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-7727-8 (ISBN)
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Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a broader legacy of middle-class Black women who wielded respectability politics as social justice strategy. Black women such as Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas state chapter of the NAACP, and the six Black girls of the “Little Rock Nine” proved their politically savvy and imminent respectability in Little Rock and on the international stage. Black ladies threatened the precarious social position of working-class white women and girls whose lone claim to social privilege was their whiteness and who spearheaded massive resistance as a direct reaction to the challenge that middle-class Black ladies posed.
MISTI NICOLE HARPER is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina Pembroke. Her work has appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and International Journal of Humanities Education, and she is the author of the e-textbook Crossing the Deep River: An Introduction to African American History. Harper also served as the historical consultant for Focus on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, part of the Read Woke Books children’s educational series. She currently lives in North Carolina.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Southern Legal Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 24 b&w |
| Verlagsort | Georgia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8203-7727-9 / 0820377279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-7727-8 / 9780820377278 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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