Gloria Ray
The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Civil Rights
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Published in 2027 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Little Rock crisis.
This powerful collaboration between Gloria Ray Karlmark and Elisabeth Åsbrink tells Gloria’s story as one of the Little Rock Nine for the first time.
In 1957, armed white soldiers prevented fourteen-year-old Gloria Ray Karlmark from entering Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The governor refused to allow her and eight other black teenagers into the all-white school. ‘That day my childhood ended,’ Gloria says today.
The Little Rock Nine, as they came to be known, were the first to act on the 1954 Supreme Court decision ruling school segregation as unconstitutional. Arkansas’ violent resistance forced President Eisenhower to deploy federal troops to escort the nine black children to school each day.
The incident became world news and a Cold War flashpoint, exposing American racism to the world, and the Little Rock Nine are now civil rights icons. But the price they paid was devastating. They endured harassment, death threats, and violence. Their families and supporters suffered. The governor ultimately closed all public schools rather than allow integration, affecting thousands of students.
Gloria Ray tells the story of that transformative year, and the deep roots of American racism and slavery from which it grew. Åsbrink’s eloquent narration and distinctive voice illuminate key moments of conflict and inequality by masterfully weaving together personal and national history.
©2027 by Elisabeth Åsbrink and Gloria Ray Karlmark (P)2027 Blackstone Publishing批評家のレビュー
“Gloria Ray is a gripping story of the fourteen-year-old young lady who was one of the nine brave souls in 1957 who desegregated Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid gun-toting federal agents and raw hatred and intimidation from screaming adults. The book takes us behind the media coverage to understand what it took for Gloria to be there and how the experience of striving for her dreams within a hostile environment affected her life. Learning about what shaped her, and how she dealt with the mental and emotional challenges of taking on the full weight of an entire social structure that resented her presence, humanises the burden and struggle of being ‘the first.’”
(Michelle Duster, author of Ida B. the Queen)“Åsbrink brings this story to life as she, for the reader, paints these scenes with incredible presence and essayistic sensitivity, thus conveying both astonishment and despair at these incredible events.”
(BTJ)“Gloria Ray is a deeply personal story in more ways than one, created as a parallel narrative in which the two co-authors take turns to give an account of the past. Elisabeth Åsbrink often returns to her own family history, with its all too many examples of contemporary European tragedies. The Holocaust hangs as heavy a shadow over the book as American racism, and Åsbrink gives explicit examples of how the Nazis were inspired by the South. All in all, the book is thus a hard-to-forget illustration of the worst sides of the 20th century, and is also exemplarily well-written.”
(Svenska Dagbladet)