{"product_id":"ladies-of-little-rock-black-femininity-and-respectability-politics-in-the-fight-to-desegregate-central-high-school-9780820377278","title":"Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School","description":"\u003ci\u003eLadies of Little Rock\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Misti Nicole Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820377278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2026 pg. 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTI NICOLE HARPER is an associate professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eArkansas Historical Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Humanities Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the author of the e-textbook \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Deep River: An Introduction to African American History\u003c\/i\u003e. Harper also served as the historical consultant for \u003ci\u003eFocus on the Women's Suffrage Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, part of the Read Woke Books children's educational series. She currently lives in North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Misti Nicole Harper \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48867506225309,"sku":"9780820377278","price":53.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_cd17eda6-ac87-4158-96e4-e90afde2cda3.jpg?v=1788335540","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/ladies-of-little-rock-black-femininity-and-respectability-politics-in-the-fight-to-desegregate-central-high-school-9780820377278","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}