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The desegregation crisis inLittle Rockis a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in. On September 25, 1957, nine black students, escorted by federal troops, gained entrance. With grace and depth,Little Rockprovides fresh perspectives on the individuals, especially the activists and policymakers, involved in these dramatic events. Looking at a wide variety of evidence and sources, Karen Anderson examines American racial politics in relation to changes in youth culture, sexuality, gender relations, and economics, and she locates the conflicts of Little Rock within the larger political and historical context. Anderson considers how white groups at the time, including middle class women and the working class, shaped American race and class relations. She documents white women's political mobilizations and, exploring political resentments, sexual fears, and religious affiliations, illuminates the reasons behind segregationists' missteps and blunders. Anderson explains how the business elite in Little Rock retained power in the face of opposition, and identifies the moral failures of business leaders and moderates who sought the appearance of federal compliance rather than actual racial justice, leaving behind a legacy of white flight, poor urban schools, and institutional racism. Probing the conflicts of school desegregation in the mid-century South,Little Rockcasts new light on connections between social inequality and the culture wars of modern America.

Elizabeth Huckaby, who as a vice principal shepherded nine black students through the tumultuous integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957, died on March 18 in Little Rock. Mrs. Huckaby, whose memoir, ''Crisis at Central High,'' inspired a 1981 television movie recounting the landmark civil rights confrontation, was 93. In September 1957, Mrs. Huckaby was about to enter her 28th year at Central High. A native of Hamburg, Ark., the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and a graduate of the University of Arkansas, she was accustomed to the ways of the South. As she remembered it, ''I had never known any black well, except those in household employ.''

Until Sept. 25, 1957, the only black people Elizabeth Huckaby had known were maids and other household helpers. But on that day 42 years ago, Huckaby, an English teacher and administrator at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., became protector of nine black children chosen to integrate Arkansas' largest public school. In so doing, she became a pivotal figure in a historic civil rights confrontation. Huckaby, who died March 18 in Little Rock at age 93, later wrote a memoir of the tumultuous year she spent at the center of the hostilities, \"Crisis at Central High--Little Rock 1957-58.\" A native Arkansan, Huckaby said in a 1981 interview that the Central High administration had known for some time that the black students were coming. School officials thought integration would stir only minor opposition.

WHEN Elizabeth Huckaby, who has died at the age of 93, turned up on September 23, 1957, to teach her usual English classes at the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, she knew it was likely to be a difficult day. But she had no idea that it would thrust her into American social history. Until then the city had appeared calmly to accept the winds of change: its University Law School, public libraries, and bus system had been desegregated without fuss years earlier. But the school board's leisurely plan ran into immediate trouble when 27 of the black children who applied for admission to white schools were brusquely rejected. After a succession of Federal court cases, 17 pupils were finally accepted by Central High, but fierce local opposition soon persuaded eight of the applicants that they would be wiser to divert to a nearby all-black school. Tensions in the city rose as the Federal courts rejected repeated efforts to bar the entry of the remaining nine. Then, at the start of the new school year on September 2, Orval Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, instructed the National Guard to surround Central High `to avert violence'. The following morning, Federal Judge Ronald Davies challenged Faubus head-on and ordered desegregation to begin the next day. When the six girls and three boys arrived, however, they were immediately seen off by the National Guard. Two weeks of further legal manoeuvring followed until, with a considerable and hostile crowd milling around outside, the children were smuggled into the school on September 23.

''CRISIS AT CENTRAL HIGH,'' on CBS-TV tonight at 8:30, is structured around the confrontation nearly 24 years ago over school integration in Little Rock, Ark., between Federal and state authorities and between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. Orval Faubus. The restrained script was written by William Link and Richard Levinson, whose previous outstanding credits include ''That Certain Summer'' and ''The Execution of Private Slovik.'' Along with David Susskind of Time Life Films, Mr. Link and Mr. Levinson also served as executive producers. Mrs. [Elizabeth Huckaby] is played by Joanne Woodward, who has established a solid artistic base in television. She has been superb as the marathon runner in ''See How She Runs'' and as the embittered former wife in ''The Shadow Box.'' Her Mrs. Huckaby, superbly realized down to conservative coiffeur and somewhat waddling walk, is yet another tribute to Miss Woodward's remarkable versatility.

Obituaries are provided for Samoan Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana, Arkansas teacher Elizabeth P. Huckaby, writer Ray Russell, abstract painter Patrick Heron, basket company founder David Longaberger, recording official Bob Cato and peace activist Vivian Hallinan.

Grange Cleveland Knight, 88, of 14 Lawrence Street died Monday, July 7, 2008 at his home. He was the husband of Elizabeth Eubanks Knight of the home and the son of the late Grover Cleveland and Minnie Huckaby Knight. He was a member Lyman First Baptist Church and former member of Irvin Southworth Masonic Lodge #350 and retired from J.P. Stevens.Other survivors include a daughter, Judith K. Ellington of Columbia; two sons, Grange E.

Matron of honor was Lisa Knight of Bradenton. Bridesmaids were Michelle Busby and Kelly Huckaby, both of Tampa, Catherine Esposito of Bellvue, Ohio, Julie Millirons of Marathon, Dawn Rose of North Port and Chanelle Strammer of Englewood. Junior bridesmaids were Kelly and Monet Strammer, both of Englewood. Flower girl was Teal Strammer of Englewood.