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Among the many changes that have occurred in our country in the last forty years, few have been as significant as those heralded by the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954. By declaring racially segregated public schools unconstitutional, the court set in motion forces that resulted in the dismantling of the legal structure of Jim Crowism. The impact of the Brown decision was national in scope, but in no o...

While school desegregation was resisted throughout the South, the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas confronted the issue and resolved it with relative dignity, becoming the first southern city to accommodate the Brown decision. Through this collection of interviews with those who were involved in the desegregation process, we learn of citizens' determ