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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

Ogden, Dunbar H.

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0826515924
ISBN13: 9780826515926
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.72 Width: 7.33 Depth: 10.11
Language: English
On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Blood will run in the streets, said Faubus, if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School. A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.

My Father Said Yes is the untold story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.

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