The Ozark Historical Review
Keywords
Hoxie, Arkansas, integration
Abstract
Five elected School Board members, a School Superintendent, and local leaders in rural Hoxie, Arkansas, were people of strong beliefs who in 1955 desegregated their school district. In this article, I argue that a combination of moral leadership and pocketbook concerns drove these men to oppose outside forces intervening in Hoxie, Arkansas, and that by doing so these men created a precedence of using the federal courts to uphold integration.
Recommended Citation
Harris, Rodney W.
(2013)
"A Town Divided: Leadership at Hoxie,"
The Ozark Historical Review: Vol. 42, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ohr/vol42/iss1/9
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