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Taken a half-century ago, these photographs of Little Rock's Central High School's riotous desegregation shocked the conscience of our nation. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was so moved by photographs of the beating of veteran Alex Wilson that he ordered 1,200 paratroopers from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock and federalized the Arkansas National Guard to quell the "disgraceful occurrences." A Life is More Than a Moment carries us back to those painful and turbulent times, but it does not leave us there. In addition to these immortal photos, photographer Will Counts returned to Little Rock in 1997 and took new portraits of many of the original subjects. Essays by Robert S. McCord and Ernest Dumas, and and introduction by Will Campbell, chart the path leading to the crisis and define its impact on the civil rights movement. This book portrays an ugly hatred, but in the end, it is also a book of hope and reconciliation.

79 pages.

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