Little Rock

(noun)

Capital of Arkansas, and place of violence against African Americans following the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which eventually led to the integration of public schools. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating into a public school. This was the first time the federal government had sent troops to the South since the Reconstruction Era.

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Examples of Little Rock in the following topics:

  • Desegregation in Little Rock

    • The Little Rock Nine was a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
    • The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
    • Little Rock was located in the relatively progressive Southern state of Arkansas.
    • In Little Rock, the capital city of Arkansas, the Little Rock School Board agreed to comply with the high court's ruling.
    • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  • The Brown Decision

    • As late as 1957, three years after the decision, a crisis erupted in Little Rock, Arkansas when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard on September 4 to prevent entry to the nine African-American students (known as the Little Rock Nine) who had sued for the right to attend an integrated school, Little Rock Central High School.
    • Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock, asked the President to send federal troops to enforce integration and protect the nine students.
    • He deployed elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to protect the students.
    • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957, National Archives.
    • The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • Daisy Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
    • After two years and still no progress, a suit was filed against the Little Rock School District in 1956.
    • As the leader of NAACP branch in Arkansas, Bates guided and advised the nine black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, who were to be integrated into the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
    • In the 1958-59 school year, however, public schools in Little Rock were closed in another attempt to roll back desegregation.
    • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the "Little Rock Nine" African American students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  • Sonata Form: The Development

    • One key difference between rock and classical harmony is that chords in pop/rock music are almost always root-position triads or seventh chords.
    • This can make harmonic analysis a little tricky in pop/rock music, especially since there is no published theory of rock harmony that is equal to Quinn's functional theory of classical harmony.
    • Following are a number of common schemata for pop/rock harmonic progressions.
    • "Mexico" by Jump, Little Children incorporates this "deceptive" variant (as well as the original version).
    • In pop/rock music, we will focus on the above four-chord progression.

  • Bronze Age Rock Carvings

    • Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, exist around the world and range in possible purposes from ritual to communication to narration.
    • Petroglyphs (rock engravings) are images containing pictograms and logograms, created by removing part of a rock surface via incising, picking, carving and/or abrading.
    • Many rock carvings were produced by hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area and typically depicted animals, humans as well as some narrative scenes.
    • Rock carvings are found across a wide geographical and temporal scope of cultures.
    • Many researchers have noticed the notable resemblance of different styles of petroglyphs across different continents, a fact which has seen little agreement or explanation among scholars and archaeologists.

  • Paleolithic Architecture

    • The oldest examples of Paleolithic dwellings are shelters in caves, followed by houses of wood, straw, and rock.
    • At the end of the Paleolithic era, humans began to produce works of art such as cave paintings, rock art, and jewelry, and began to engage in religious behavior such as burial and rituals.
    • Other types of houses existed; these were more frequently campsites in caves or in the open air with little in the way of formal structure.
    • The oldest examples are shelters within caves, followed by houses of wood, straw, and rock.
    • Several families could live inside, where three small hearths, little more than rings of stones, kept people warm during the winter.

  • Syncopation in Pop/Rock Music

  • Harmony in Pop/Rock Music

  • Form in Pop/Rock Music

  • Rock and Roll

    • The rock music of the 1960s had its roots in rock and roll, but also drew strongly on genres such as blues, folk, jazz, and classical.
    • It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll.
    • By the late 1960s, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion.
    • Psychedelic rock peaked in the final years of the decade.
    • Several rock historians have claimed that rock and roll was one of the first music genres to define an age group, giving teenagers a sense of belonging.