The DOI Reads Book Club

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
12:30 PM  |  (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)  |  1 hour

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The DOI Reads Book Club will again be meeting virtually on Wednesday, November 13, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET to discuss our next Book Club selection, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Lisa Frazier Page.

As always, all are welcome and you don't need to finish the book to join us. Just bring your questions, insights and thoughts about this book.

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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

Author:  Carlotta Walls LaNier and Lisa Frazier Page 
Publisher‏: ‎ One World (July 27, 2010)
Paperback: ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 0345511018

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. coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

-- from Amazon

 

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