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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
Contributor(s): Ogden, Dunbar H. (Author), Tutu, Archbishop Desmond (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0826515924     ISBN-13: 9780826515926
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2008
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Annotation: On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. aBlood will run in the streets, a said Faubus, aif Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School.a A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 323.119
LCCN: 2007032192
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 7.33" W x 10.11" L (1.48 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Locality - Little Rock, Arkansas
- Geographic Orientation - Arkansas
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 219
Christian Century 02/23/2010 pg. 63
 
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On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Blood will run in the streets, said Faubus, if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School. A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.

My Father Said Yes is the untold story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.

This memoir is also a moving father-son story. In this frank account, the author discusses the depression his father battled for most of his life, as well as the family tragedy of his brother's suicide.

Contributor Bio(s): Ogden, Dunbar H.: - Dunbar H. Ogden is Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley where, since 2000, he has taught a freshman seminar based on the events in this book.
 
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