When my daughter asked me to buy Kristin Levine’s The Lions of Little Rock (Puffin Books, 2013), she knew I’d say yes. What Levine has done is imagine what happened the year after the Little Rock Nine fought their way through 1957-58, and Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central High […]
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- “We do not choose our past. We inherit it. Thus, in all our most essential traits, we do not choose our identity. We have to live with it.” Paul K. Conkin, “Hot, Humid, and Sad” Journal of Southern History LXIV:1 (Feb 1998)