South of Little Rock - Adams, George Rollie
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A powerful story of race, family, and small town life in the South in the 1950s. When the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis sends shock waves across the nation in 1957, widower Sam Tate, a white merchant and councilman with two young children, faces new questions of conscience, belief, and child-rearing in tiny Unionville, Arkansas. Becky Reeves, an unmarried northerner who has come south to teach while hiding a secret past, must decide how to approach current events in her seventh-grade class without getting fired. Gran Tate, a strong-willed woman who likes quilting and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A powerful story of race, family, and small town life in the South in the 1950s. When the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis sends shock waves across the nation in 1957, widower Sam Tate, a white merchant and councilman with two young children, faces new questions of conscience, belief, and child-rearing in tiny Unionville, Arkansas. Becky Reeves, an unmarried northerner who has come south to teach while hiding a secret past, must decide how to approach current events in her seventh-grade class without getting fired. Gran Tate, a strong-willed woman who likes quilting and helping raise her grandchildren, dislikes blacks and Yankees and fears she may lose everything she holds dear. Life gets more complicated for all of them when Governor Faubus calls out the National Guard to stop the integration of Central High, President Eisenhower sends federal troops to enforce it, and Unionville editor Preston Upshaw fans the flames of hatred to sell newspapers. Amid cross burnings, White Citizens' Council meetings, and fervent speculating and sermonizing by townsfolk, white and black, at home, work, and church, Sam questions old ways, Gran clings to tradition, and Becky angers parents and school officials. The unrest brings Sam and Becky together then combines with Becky's secret to stand between them in an emotional journey through a world where love and courage struggle against fear and hate.
Autorenporträt
George Rollie Adams grew up among storytellers in southern Arkansas, taught public school there, and attended graduate school in Louisiana and Arizona. He produced two books with colleagues while living in Tennessee and crisscrossing the country researching historic sites for the National Park Service and wrote a third while serving as a history museum director in Louisiana and New York.Choice called his biography of General William S. Harney "an excellent book, expertly documented, and nicely written." The reviewer for the Journal of American History termed it "a vivid portrayal." And the reviewer for the Denver Westerners said it "reads like a novel."Adams subsequently led the development of the Strong National Museum of Play into the world's first collections-based museum devoted solely to the critical role of play in learning and human development. There he established and served as editor in chief of the American Journal of Play and received recognition in college textbooks for innovative leadership in museum management and marketing.He now lives and writes among the natural beauty and bountiful farmland of New York's Finger Lakes region. His novels South of Little Rock and Found in Pieces have each received multiple awards for historical, regional, and social issues fiction. Because he comes from a family of quilters, their craft figures prominently in his writing. He and his wife have three adopted children, each from a different part of the world. See his website and read posts to his blog, "It Happened Like This and Other Stuff," at https://GeorgeRollieAdamsBooks.com