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Carry the Rock : Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
ISBN: 9781609611842 | 1609611845
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Rodale Books
Pub. Date: 8/30/2011
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In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The bravery of the Little Rock Nine, as they became known, captured the country's imagination and made history but created deep scars in the community. Jay Jennings, a veteran sportswriter and native son of Little Rock, returned to his hometown to take the pulse of the city and the school as the fiftieth anniversary of the integration fight approached. He found a compelling story in the school's... MORE
| Prologue: Upon This Rock | p. xi |
| The Distant Goal | p. 1 |
| Building Central High | p. 21 |
| Speeches And Judgments | p. 51 |
| "We Got no Leaders" | p. 71 |
| Making A Stand | p. 99 |
| Road to Ruin | p. 117 |
| Face to Face | p. 133 |
| Chemistry and Consequences | p. 153 |
| On the Offensive | p. 171 |
| The Distant Goal (Continued) | ... MOREp. 191 |
| Epilogue | p. 221 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 229 |
| Selected Sources | p. 233 |
| Index | p. 245 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Jay Jannings is a freelance writer who has contributed to the New York Times, Travel Leisure, the Oxford American, and many other magazines and newspapers. A former reporter for Sports Illustrated and features editor at Tennis magazine, he edited Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game. He lives in Little Rock.
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