Understanding the Little Rock Crisis : An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation

In the fall of 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prohibit nine black students from entering a white high school.

Papers from a 1997 conference held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the crisis trace its origins and address its legacy.

They discuss economic, constitutional, historical, and personal aspects of the crisis and of segregation.