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Author:	Carlotta Walls LaNier, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page	Publisher:	One World
ISBN-10:	034551100X	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9780345511003	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2009	Condition:	Good
Special Attributes:	--

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In 1957, at the age of 14, Carlotta LaNier was the youngest of the "Little Rock Nine," the brave black students who volunteered to lead the integration of the U.S. public school system by attending a Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. It took a team of paratroopers just to get them in the door, but, as LaNier poignantly reports, she and her colleagues were on their own once they got inside the building, where they were subjected to relentless abuse and discrimination from both students and faculty. LaNier also recalls the harrowing bombing of her family home, a crime which her own father was accused of and a family friend was (in LaNier's mind) wrongly convicted of. Somehow, LaNier endured the hostility of her classmates and the community to become the first female African-American to graduate from her high school, but it has taken her more than fifty years to summon the nerve to relive her side of a courageous story.
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Length:	284 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	19.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
An insider's account of the nation's most famous school integration recounts how the author made the decision to attend Arkansas's all-white Central High because of geographical practicality rather than a sense of heroism, describing how subsequent events affected her family's beliefs about dedication, perseverance, and sacrifice. By the co-author of the best-selling The Pact.
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"[A] simple, powerful memoir....In the...most moving passages, LaNier describes the burdens of those years, as an ebullient teenager stoically marching through long, hard, lonely days, dutifully suppressing the seething anger she had been told never to express, desperately waiting for her life at Central -- the life she'd once dreamed of having -- to end." (10/04/2009)

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

Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	034551100X
Publication Date:	2009-08-25
Publisher:	One World/Ballantine

Pages:	304
Height:	1.2000 inches
Width:	6.4000 inches
Weight:	1.2000 pounds

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