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Additional research Information for the "Lost Year"

• "The Giants Wore White Gloves" - a documentary by Sandra Hubbard - available at the Central High Museum and the Clinton Museum Story.
• "Breaking the Silence" - a book written by Dr. Sara Murphy and son Patrick Murhpy. Available at the Central High Museum and at the link provided.
• "The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock" - a book written by one of the Women's Emergency Committee Founders, Vivion Brewer - available at the Central High Museum.
• "Empty Classrooms, Empty Hearts" - Arkansas Historical Quarterly Volume LVI Winter 1997 427-442. Dr. Sondra Gordy
• "Through a Heroine's Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the Lost Year" - Arkansas Historical Quarterly Vol LXVII NO.2 Summer 2008. Dr. Sondra Gordy

Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed its Public Schools was published in 2009 and expands the topic of this website and the documentary film. Written by historian Dr Sondra Gordy, this oral history extensively details events from May 1958 through August 1959 through the perspective of displaced students and teachers.

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