Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School by Harper, Misti Nicole
Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School by Harper, Misti Nicole

Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School

Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led...
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Author: Misti Nicole Harper
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School by Harper, Misti Nicole

Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School

$53.92
Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School by Harper, Misti Nicole

Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School

$53.92
Author: Misti Nicole Harper
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a broader legacy of middle-class Black women who wielded respectability politics as social justice strategy. Black women such as Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas state chapter of the NAACP, and the six Black girls of the "Little Rock Nine" proved their politically savvy and imminent respectability in Little Rock and on the international stage. Black ladies threatened the precarious social position of working-class white women and girls whose lone claim to social privilege was their whiteness and who spearheaded massive resistance as a direct reaction to the challenge that middle-class Black ladies posed.

Author: Misti Nicole Harper
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 07/15/2026
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780820377278


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 97

About the Author
MISTI NICOLE HARPER is an associate professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Her work has appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and International Journal of Humanities Education, and she is the author of the e-textbook Crossing the Deep River: An Introduction to African American History. Harper also served as the historical consultant for Focus on the Women's Suffrage Movement, part of the Read Woke Books children's educational series. She currently lives in North Carolina.
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