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My father said yes : a white pastor in Little Rock school integration / Dunbar H. Ogden ; foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Title
My father said yes : a white pastor in Little Rock school integration / Dunbar H. Ogden ; foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Author
Ogden, Dunbar H.
Publication
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.

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Description
xx, 170 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Summary
Dunbar H. Ogden's profile and case study in the courage of his father (also named Dunbar H. Ogden), a white Presbyterian minister who stood up to racism in his town and in his congregation during the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration episode in 1957, and the deep mental depression this clergyman fell into later in his life.
Subject
  • Ogden, Dunbar H., 1902-
  • Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) > History > 20th century
  • School integration > Little Rock > History > 20th century
  • African American students > Little Rock > History > 20th century
  • Little Rock (Ark.) > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"Led by a well-dressed white man in a light suit." -- "Blood will run in the streets." : Fall 1957 -- "I didn't know it could cut so deep." : Spring 1958 -- "No preacher is going to run me off from my church." : Summer 1958 -- "He taught by his actions." : Little Rock anniversary, 1997.
ISBN
  • 9780826515926 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0826515924 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007032192
OCLC
165956633
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library