Description
"A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation."--Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School "Provides important context for an important moment in America's history."--Associated Press
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine," as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
Author: Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page
Publisher: One World
Published: 07/27/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780345511010
ISBN10: 0345511018
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine," as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
Author: Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page
Publisher: One World
Published: 07/27/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780345511010
ISBN10: 0345511018
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
About the Author
Carlotta Walls LaNier attended Michigan State University and graduated from Colorado State College, now the University of Northern Colorado, on whose board of trustees she sits. After working for the YWCA, she founded her own real estate brokerage firm, LaNier and Company. A sought-after lecturer, LaNier speaks across the country, and she has received the Congressional Medal of Honor and two honorary doctorate degrees. She is the mother of two children, Whitney and Brooke, and lives in Englewood, Colorado, with her husband, Ira.