author results for Kirk, John A.

Winthrop Rockefeller

Kirk, John A. — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. Kirk pursues clues threaded throughout Rockefeller’s life, tracing his family background, childhood, and education; his rise in the oil industry from roustabout to junior executive; his military service in the Pacific during World War II, including his involvement in the battles of Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa; his postwar work in race relations, health, education, and philanthropy; his marriage to and divorce from Barbara "Bobo" Sears; and the birth of his only child, future Arkansas lieutenant governor Win Paul Rockefeller. This careful examination of Winthrop Rockefeller's first forty-four years casts a powerful new light on his relationship with his adopted state, where his legacy continues to be felt more than half a century after his governorship.

Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement

Kirk, John A. — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Beyond Little Rock

Kirk, John A. — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Redefining the Color Line

Kirk, John A. — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Winthrop Rockefeller

Kirk, John A. — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Winner, 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association

Winner, 2024 Booker Worthen Literary Prize

Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. Kirk pursues clues threaded throughout Rockefeller's life, tracing his family background, childhood, and education; his rise in the oil industry from roustabout to junior executive; his military service in the Pacific during World War II, including his involvement in the battles of Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa; his postwar work in race relations, health, education, and philanthropy; his marriage to and divorce from Barbara "Bobo" Sears; and the birth of his only child, future Arkansas lieutenant governor Win Paul Rockefeller. This careful examination of Winthrop Rockefeller's first forty-four years casts a powerful new light on his relationship with his adopted state, where his legacy continues to be felt more than half a century after his governorship.

An Epitaph for Little Rock

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Civil Rights Movement

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Presents an in-depth exploration of the multiple facets and layers of the movement, providing a wide range of primary sources, commentary, and perspectives. Focusing on documents, this volume offers students concise yet comprehensive analysis of the civil rights movement by covering both well-known and relatively unfamiliar texts. Through these, students will develop a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the origins of the movement, its pivotal years during the 1950s and 1960s, and its legacy that extends to the present day. Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this reader is an ideal resource for courses on the subject, as well as classes on race and ethnicity, the 1960s, African American history, the Black Power and economic justice movements, and many other related areas of study.

Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas's racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience of slavery; the African American experience of emancipation and after; African American migration patterns; the rise of sundown towns; white violence and its continuing legacy; women's activism and home demon¬stration agents; African American religious figures from the better know Elias Camp (E. C.) Morris to the lesser-known Richard Nathaniel Hogan; the Mexican-American Bracero program; Latina/o and Asian American refugee experiences; and contemporary views of Latina/o immigration in Arkansas. Informing debates about race and ethnicity in Arkansas, the South, and the nation, the book provides both a primer to the history of race and ethnicity in Arkansas and a prospective map for better understanding racial and ethnic relations in the United States.

Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas's racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience of slavery; the African American experience of emancipation and after; African American migration patterns; the rise of sundown towns; white violence and its continuing legacy; women's activism and home demon¬stration agents; African American religious figures from the better know Elias Camp (E. C.) Morris to the lesser-known Richard Nathaniel Hogan; the Mexican-American Bracero program; Latina/o and Asian American refugee experiences; and contemporary views of Latina/o immigration in Arkansas. Informing debates about race and ethnicity in Arkansas, the South, and the nation, the book provides both a primer to the history of race and ethnicity in Arkansas and a prospective map for better understanding racial and ethnic relations in the United States.

Arsnick

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Epitaph for Little Rock

Williams, Juan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This collection of essays mines the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from the 1960s to the present to form a body of work that represents some of the finest scholarship on the crisis, from distinguished southern historians Numan V. Bartley, Neil R. McMillen, Tony A. Freyer, Roy Reed, David L. Chappell, Lorraine Gates Schuyler, John A. Kirk, Azza Salama Layton, and Ben F. Johnson III. A comprehensive array of topics are explored, including the state, regional, national, and international dimensions of the crisis as well as local white and black responses to events, gender issues, politics, and law. Introduced with an informative historiographical essay from John A. Kirk, An Epitaph for Little Rock is essential reading on this defining moment in America's civil rights struggle.

Bring Your Best Game

Kirk, John — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In Bring Your Best Game, my debut memoir, I share the extraordinary adventures that have shaped my life. Its settings range from the nostalgic charm of hometown America to the captivating backdrop of the international stage. My journey through a pivotal era in world history and my personal life gave me the power to transition from the accepted career and success norms and to craft my own. It begins when, at age seven, an Army brat, I stand with my mother on the tarmac in Nashville, Tennessee, boarding a plane for a flight to New York City and then on to Paris, France. At the time, I had no idea of the adventure I was embarking on that morning in 1955 and that my life would change, and change again, in directions that I couldn't yet imagine. As I settled in my seat my stomach was churning with the excitement of this new adventure, but I didn't know that this journey would be the beginning of a lifetime of adventure, coming face to face with actors, musicians, political and military leaders, working in forty-two countries and living in three. Along the way, I will also experience tragedies-being in New York Times Square on 9/11 when the planes hit, seeing the poverty in Mumbai, and losing people I love. But in the midst of it all, I will inhale the wonders of the world-the allure of Paris in the springtime, Picasso's masterpieces, and the captivating photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Along the way, I cultivated a deep appreciation for diverse individuals, languages, art, culture, and style. First, my sharp shooting experiences gave me the skills to become a champion. Next, my business career as an executive gave me insight into what society calls a success. And now, my career as an artist affords me the freedom to create and share beauty.

Song for Chance

John Van Kirk — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Keyboard man Jack Voss spends his evenings in the relative sanctuary of the clubs, playing jazz standards on the piano and occasionally singing some of the songs that made him famous. But when his life of comparative comfort and solitude is rocked by a devastating personal loss, Voss is led back to The Enchanted Pond, the 1974 rock opera that catapulted his band, Vossimilitude, into the stratosphere. The story of an ill-fated love triangle based on the tense relations between Voss, his childhood girlfriend, and Vossimilitude's dangerous and charismatic bassist, Voss's masterpiece set him on a path to this day of reckoning. To endure, he must confront the tragic consequences of his self-absorption on the only firm ground left him: the piano. With the sure, unsentimental narrative command of writers like Richard Russo and Jonathan Franzen, John Van Kirk has brought to life in Song for Chance not just a fallen rock god, but-with the help of liner notes, bonus tracks, and the complete Voss discography-the whole sex, drugs, and rock and roll era with an immediacy so recognizable that it feels like yesterday.

Arkansas Women

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced the historical moment in which they lived. Diverse in nature, Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth control movement. Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's rich cultural heritage.

The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement

Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Oil + Water

Greene, Travis — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT