Lessons from Little Rock

Roberts, Terrence

ISBN 10: 1935106112 / ISBN 13: 9781935106111

Published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, AR:, 2009

About this Item

Little Rock, AR: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2009. Hard Cover w/ DJ. Stated First Edition (with complete numberline). Inscribed by Terrence Roberts on title page " To. Keeping up the fight for African-Americans" (see images), 8vo, 187 pp. Bound in black boards with gilt titles, the covers are clean and solid with light bumping on spine ends and corners. Pages are clean, with no other names or markings, not Ex-Library. Unclipped DJ ($9.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing, with an 'autographed by author' sticker on the front cover, protected in a fresh Brodart archival mylar jacket. Book and DJ condition: Very Good plus. Memoir of civil rights pioneer Terrence Roberts, one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 following the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a new box.

Seller Inventory # 6921

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons from Little Rock
• Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, AR:
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935106112
• ISBN 13: 9781935106111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Memoir
  • SIGNED

About this title

Synopsis

Sober news reports of a U.S. Army convoy rumbling across the bridge into Little Rock cannot overpower this intimate, powerful, personal account of the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Showing what it felt like to be one of those nine students who wanted only a good high school education, Roberts’s rich narrative and candid voice take readers through that rocky year, helping us realize that the historic events of the Little Rock integration crisis happened to real people―to children, parents, our fellow citizens.

About the Author

Terrence Roberts graduated from California State University and earned a PhD in psychology from Southern Illinois University. He now resides in California, where he owns and directs a management consulting firm. President Clinton presented Roberts with the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. Roberts is a frequent public speaker and has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Rachel Maddow Show, and NPR’s Tavis Smiley Show.