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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $16.00
Manufacturer: One World/Ballantine
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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.
For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.
Descended from a line of proud black landowners and businessmen, Carlotta was raised to believe that education was the key to success. She embraced learning and excelled in her studies at the black schools she attended throughout the 1950s. With Brown v. Board of Education erasing the color divide in classrooms across the country, the teenager volunteered to be among the first black students--of whom she was the youngest--to integrate nearby Central High School, considered one of the nation’s best academic institutions.
But for Carlotta and her eight comrades, simply getting through the door was the first of many trials. Angry mobs of white students and their parents hurled taunts, insults, and threats. Arkansas’s governor used the National Guard to bar the black students from entering the school. Finally, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to establish order and escort the Nine into the building. That was just the start of a heartbreaking three-year journey for Carlotta, who would see her home bombed, a crime for which her own father was a suspect and for which a friend of Carlotta’s was ultimately jailed--albeit wrongly, in Carlotta’s eyes. But she persevered to the victorious end: her graduation from Central.
Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an inspiring, thoroughly engrossing memoir that is not only a testament to the power of one to make a difference but also of the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
Complete with compelling photographs of the time, A Mighty Long Way shines a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history and shows that determination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world are not exclusive to a few special people but are inherent within us all.
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Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-18
Summary: "An impressive reminder of the dawn of the Civil Rights Age"
A Mighty Long Way is a memoir by Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the African-American students in the first group that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. She recounts in plain-spoken prose the indignities that she suffered both while in school and out of it during this revolutionary period. The torments she underwent, alas, are not as difficult to relate to today as they might be, with the rash of news stories about school bullying coming once more to the fore. Still, the unrelenting nature of her harassment makes difficult reading, despite her touching recollections of the rare kindnesses shown to her by a few of her white classmates. The horror climaxes in the firebombing of her home after her senior year. With such stresses during her high school years it is no wonder that Walls LaNier found it difficult to find her way in life afterward, and she does not shirk from recounting her missteps in college and early adulthood. Her journey towards finding inner peace ends with a moving recounting of her thoughts and emotions on the evening of Barack Obama's election to the Presidency of the United States. Despite its unassuming tone, Walls LaNier's narrative is an important reminder of how far America has advanced since the day nine African-American students were screamed at and spit upon on the steps of Central High, and how far it still has to go.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-28
Summary: "Walls Memoir Provides an Insider's Perspective of a Troubling Time"
Carlotta Walls Lanier, the author of A Mighty Long Way, is one of the Little Rock nine who helped to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This memoir was an easy read - at least as far as the writing goes. What was not easy was the idea of school segregation and the the racist behavior that Carlotta and her friends endured during their high school years. When most teenagers were busy attending football games, dating, and hanging out with their friends, Carlotta spent her days worrying about the safety of herself and her family and finding her way in an environment that she was not often welcomed in. She faced roadblocks on her road to graduation that her white peers never had to encounter, sometimes being unable to attend school due to threats made against her.
Carlotta achieved her dream of graduating from Central High School along with some of the other students who helped to integrate the school. While they did achieve their goal, it was not without a price. Carlotta does not complain about the path she chose in life, but does recognize that attending high school under such stressful circumstances did affect her ability to concentrate and accomplish certain things in college.
History books make mention of the Little Rock nine, and most students do know the story of Ruby Bridges, yet even having a little knowledge about this chapter in history did not give me the perspective that a person who lived it is able to. Walls did not write her memoir until later in her life, having tried to leave her infamy behind. Remembering the events she lived through was hard when she first began accepting speaking offers, but Walls persevered and continued to share her story with others. Today the Little Rock nine are a group of friends who meet and keep up with each other regularly. Their shared experience have bound them for life. Walls' first person account of this period in history is honest and interesting, and could easily be used in a high school curriculum as well as for pleasure reading. Any reader will be inspired by Walls' determination and pride
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-21
Summary: "A story of courage and determination...."
Although I knew of the Little Rock Nine, I really didn't know much about the details, in fact I had thought that the National Guard was called in to escort them into the school and was shocked to learn that the governor, who was a segregationist actually called the National Guard to keep them out. It took President Eisenhower to become involved and send the 101st Airborne to escort these bright young students to their school and protect them through the day.
I became very engrossed with Carlotta Wall's story. It is told candidly and honestly and her descriptions are not just of the torment that she received while trying to make a better academic choice but of her life and her family. You feel for her and her family. When she started this journey it was simple enough, just a form to sign if she wanted to go to Central High, a school she passed and that was one of the premier schools not only in Arkansas but in the Nation. She was a hard working student and came from a family of honest, hard working people with good values and principles. She prized education and never knew that the signing of the slip that day would change not only her, but her family, friends and the course of the civil rights movement.
The story makes you feel....you feel angry, upset, incredulous, a wide array of emotions.
You understand Carlotta, because she is just like any other student that you come in contact with that is serious about learning. She worries through school closures, correspondence courses, and keeping up. She is trying her mightiest to stay on track and focused through a maze of abuse and torment. She is kept away from doing any of the normal high school things like prom, football games, etc.
Though I don't generally read a lot of non-fiction I somehow could not put down this book. What a courageous, inspiring, brave woman Carlotta Walls is.
If you want a story about determination, beating the odds and how one person's journey can make a difference, this book may be for you. I found it absolutely riveting.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-12-08
Summary: "For Those Who Marched Before Us"
I read several of the Little Rock Nine memoirs in the past, but the most recent on the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas by Carlotta Walls Lanier, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, was like looking into the history of these events for the first time. Part memoir, part historical and social commentary, the youngest of the nine at 14 years-old, Walls Lanier was forever changed by the events that occurred in 1957. Raised in a loving, middle-class home, she was supported by her extended family, church and community in her quest for unconditional educational. But she was so traumatized by the ordeal that it took 30 years to come to grips of it all.
Walls Lanier left Little Rock in 1960 and moved to Denver, Colorado, as did her immediate family after the bombing of her home. She was a bright, ambitious, intelligent young lady, who just wanted access to the best education possible to secure the future she felt she deserved, yet there were thousands of people who tried to take that basic right away from her. And why? Because they were threatened by the color of her skin and threatened that their way of life as they knew it would be changed. Arkansas' Governor Faubus was determined to keep the six girls and three boys from entering Central High by calling out the National Guard. Angry white parents taunted, threw things, berated these youngsters, their faces full of hate. But Daisy Bates, a journalist and activist who was born in my mother's hometown of Huttig, was unafraid of standing up to the white establishment that dared violate these young people's rights to an education as mandated by the 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling. She sheperded these young people into the history books and in the path of danger.
These children, because that is what the Little Rock nine were, endured physical and mental abuse at the hands of their white peers; with little support from the teachers and administration. The following school year, rather than integrate, whites managed to close all of the high schools, causing students to scramble for alternatives for their education. Walls Lanier use correspondence school and went out-of-state for awhile to attend high school. All because the fears of the white citizens of Little Rock were based on some archaic, distorted notion of the mixing of the races.
This past summer I visited Little Rock, along with my mother, sister and niece as part of our family reunion in the southern part of Arkansas. It is a much different city then it was in 1957. You would never have known this was formerly a Jim Crow city. We spent a lot of the time visiting and reliving the history of that city. We visited Central High and the majestic school's architecture is amazing. Lanier Walls gives the history of how this school came to be built and why she so wanted to attend. Earlier this year, monuments were erected to the Little Rock nine on the Capitol grounds.
I recommend this book to students of the Civil Rights movement and also to young people to make them aware of the sacrifices made by African-American children and adults whose values for education were high priority after God and family.
This advanced reading copy was provided courtesy of the Vine program through Amazon.com.
Dera R. Williams
APOOO BookClub
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-11-29
Summary: "Inspirational Story from a Member of the Little Rock Nine"
A Mighty Long Way is an emotional book written by one of the courageous individuals who fought against the tide of integration and helped move her community closer to equality. Carlotta Walls was a member of the now famous Little Rock Nine- a group of black students selected to help integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957, just a couple of years after the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in U.S. schools.
Walls became the first female black student to graduate from Little Rock Central and she relives her ordeal in the pages of this book. She endured endless name- calling, degrading taunts and acts, threatening phone calls, and even a direct attack on her family's home as she studied at Little Rock Central high school and fought for her right to a solid education. Her plight, and that of the other students, made national news and this book discusses the many encounters with police, the necessary enforcement from federal troops, the acts of violence against the nine students and their families, and the ongoing trauma and fear that marked each day as these young students tried to integrate and earn a decent education.
Many people likely remember this moment in history or recall it from their history lessons in high school or college. I wasn't alive at this time, and I realize that these days of forced integration are long behind us, but it is still shocking to read about this shameful part of the American past. All that Carlotta Walls and the others wanted was an education. It would have been nice to fit in and make friends, but an edcuation and normal high school experience was all they really wanted. They knew that Little Rock Central was a renowned school and they wanted the best education possible. But the angry citizens of Little Rock did not want their school overrun by these people of a different race. They wanted segregation to live on, and many adults formed pressure groups, organized boycotts, and otherwise tried to coerce state and local governments to return to the segregationist way of life.
A Mighty Long Way is certainly an inspirational story and I particularly like the determination on the part of Walls to graduate from Little Rock Central high school. She faced enemies everywhere she went and never knew what to expect from day to day. At one point, her home was directly attacked and dynamite was planted and exploded. This would have convinced many students and parents to give up the fight, but Walls and her family would not think of it. They held tough and Carlotta vowed to continue to the very end. Walls never gave up or gave in, and she pressed forward with her studies in spite of tremendous pressure from the local community and beyond.
A Mighty Long Way is written in first person and in many ways, it reads like an individual's personal diary. Walls does talk a little about her colleagues and expresses her admiration toward the group as a whole. But for the most part, the book focuses on Walls herself. And while her time spent at Little Rock Central high school receives the bulk of the book's coverage, there are a few chapters devoted to her time in college as well as her time in the spotlight as a grown woman, giving speeches and attending events to honor her and the other members of the Little Rock Nine. Walls struggled to come to terms with her past, but a personal breakthrough occurs when she realizes the educational value of her experience and decides to share it with others.
Integration of our public schools is long behind us now, but the experience was difficult and the struggle was intense for Walls and others who fought for the integration of Little Rock Central high school back in the 1950's. Carlotta Walls LaNier is a testament to those who persevere and her story will amaze and inspire.