The book captures the events of a school integration that occurred in July 11, 1955 in Hoxie, Arkansas.
This book provides documented information as in newspapers, researched articles, actual personal interviews from those who lived it and the challenges they faced through the effects of integration in the Arkansas Delta. Despite other accounts, there was an impact in this small town that rocked our world in the African American community. This book challenges the reports, papers and narratives given regarding the Hoxie School event. Included are corrections to incorrect and undocumented information that has been provided.
The information given supports the fact that there were African Americans living in Northeast Arkansas Delta in 1955. It describes how 14 African American families withstood the injustices of the first school to fully integrate (K-12) during the height of the civil rights era. The 25 children entered the doors to join 1000 white students and the experiences they faced daily in the classes and walking home from school. The students were in an integrated school but living in the same segregated environment.
Our parents felt this was an opportunity for the children to get a better education. Education had always been important, and they did not back down. The swiftness of the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Hoxie immediately took advantage of this situation being the law of the land and used it as an opportunity to rectify a financial challenge they faced.
After LIFE Magazine printed a 4-page spread of the first day, there was an influx of segregationist, local and from out of town appeared in Hoxie bringing handbills on how to have a riot. They brought with them threats, intimidations.
They impact for AA was such that families began moving out of town. The working parents were released from their jobs and blackballed. The impact of the integration reached a national level, state, and local levels.
On September 2003, the State of AR proclaimed us the Hoxie21, (students who attended the school at least one year).
This book of the Hill Families' story and the impact we faced and lived. It is our story of "Success Against the Grain."
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This book provides documented information as in newspapers, researched articles, actual personal interviews from those who lived it and the challenges they faced through the effects of integration in the Arkansas Delta. Despite other accounts, there was an impact in this small town that rocked our world in the African American community. This book challenges the reports, papers and narratives given regarding the Hoxie School event. Included are corrections to incorrect and undocumented information that has been provided.
The information given supports the fact that there were African Americans living in Northeast Arkansas Delta in 1955. It describes how 14 African American families withstood the injustices of the first school to fully integrate (K-12) during the height of the civil rights era. The 25 children entered the doors to join 1000 white students and the experiences they faced daily in the classes and walking home from school. The students were in an integrated school but living in the same segregated environment.
Our parents felt this was an opportunity for the children to get a better education. Education had always been important, and they did not back down. The swiftness of the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Hoxie immediately took advantage of this situation being the law of the land and used it as an opportunity to rectify a financial challenge they faced.
After LIFE Magazine printed a 4-page spread of the first day, there was an influx of segregationist, local and from out of town appeared in Hoxie bringing handbills on how to have a riot. They brought with them threats, intimidations.
They impact for AA was such that families began moving out of town. The working parents were released from their jobs and blackballed. The impact of the integration reached a national level, state, and local levels.
On September 2003, the State of AR proclaimed us the Hoxie21, (students who attended the school at least one year).
This book of the Hill Families' story and the impact we faced and lived. It is our story of "Success Against the Grain."
HOXIE, FIRST TO INTEGRATE SCHOOLS IN ARKANSAS July 11, 1955
The book captures the events of a school integration that occurred in July 11, 1955 in Hoxie, Arkansas.
This book provides documented information as in newspapers, researched articles, actual personal interviews from those who lived it and the challenges they faced through the effects of integration in the Arkansas Delta. Despite other accounts, there was an impact in this small town that rocked our world in the African American community. This book challenges the reports, papers and narratives given regarding the Hoxie School event. Included are corrections to incorrect and undocumented information that has been provided.
The information given supports the fact that there were African Americans living in Northeast Arkansas Delta in 1955. It describes how 14 African American families withstood the injustices of the first school to fully integrate (K-12) during the height of the civil rights era. The 25 children entered the doors to join 1000 white students and the experiences they faced daily in the classes and walking home from school. The students were in an integrated school but living in the same segregated environment.
Our parents felt this was an opportunity for the children to get a better education. Education had always been important, and they did not back down. The swiftness of the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Hoxie immediately took advantage of this situation being the law of the land and used it as an opportunity to rectify a financial challenge they faced.
After LIFE Magazine printed a 4-page spread of the first day, there was an influx of segregationist, local and from out of town appeared in Hoxie bringing handbills on how to have a riot. They brought with them threats, intimidations.
They impact for AA was such that families began moving out of town. The working parents were released from their jobs and blackballed. The impact of the integration reached a national level, state, and local levels.
On September 2003, the State of AR proclaimed us the Hoxie21, (students who attended the school at least one year).
This book of the Hill Families' story and the impact we faced and lived. It is our story of "Success Against the Grain."
This book provides documented information as in newspapers, researched articles, actual personal interviews from those who lived it and the challenges they faced through the effects of integration in the Arkansas Delta. Despite other accounts, there was an impact in this small town that rocked our world in the African American community. This book challenges the reports, papers and narratives given regarding the Hoxie School event. Included are corrections to incorrect and undocumented information that has been provided.
The information given supports the fact that there were African Americans living in Northeast Arkansas Delta in 1955. It describes how 14 African American families withstood the injustices of the first school to fully integrate (K-12) during the height of the civil rights era. The 25 children entered the doors to join 1000 white students and the experiences they faced daily in the classes and walking home from school. The students were in an integrated school but living in the same segregated environment.
Our parents felt this was an opportunity for the children to get a better education. Education had always been important, and they did not back down. The swiftness of the decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Hoxie immediately took advantage of this situation being the law of the land and used it as an opportunity to rectify a financial challenge they faced.
After LIFE Magazine printed a 4-page spread of the first day, there was an influx of segregationist, local and from out of town appeared in Hoxie bringing handbills on how to have a riot. They brought with them threats, intimidations.
They impact for AA was such that families began moving out of town. The working parents were released from their jobs and blackballed. The impact of the integration reached a national level, state, and local levels.
On September 2003, the State of AR proclaimed us the Hoxie21, (students who attended the school at least one year).
This book of the Hill Families' story and the impact we faced and lived. It is our story of "Success Against the Grain."
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| BN ID: | 2940185906934 |
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| Publisher: | FAYTH HILL WASHINGTON |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2024 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 9 MB |
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