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| My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dunbar H. Ogden, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 559825
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0826515924
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.119607307677309045
EAN: 9780826515926
ASIN: 0826515924
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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The unknown soldier of civil rights May 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most readable page-turner from an academic publisher since Tom Clancy's first book. It's a true story with an unlikely hero: an aristocratic pastor from the old-style Deep South who led the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas because his conscience drove him to do it. In close partnership with Mrs. Daisy Bates, a feisty black female newspaper editor, Reverend Ogden kept up the struggle until the first black student had graduated (Ogden smuggled the young Dr. Martin Luther King into the ceremony). By then,Ogden had become an influential national spokesman for civil rights. Along the way he had to face his own doubts and depression, financial hardships, and terrible tragedy in his own family. His reward was to be fired by his congregation and forgotten by history, but he lived to see the outcome of the great revolution he had helped start. If any tale can be both a true inspiration and a great read, this is it.The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
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