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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. "Blood will run in the streets," said Faubus, "if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School." A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.


My Father Said Yes is the untold story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.


This memoir is also a moving father-son story. In this frank account, the author discusses the depression his father battled for most of his life, as well as the family tragedy of his brother's suicide.

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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. "Blood will run in the streets," said Faubus, "if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School." A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.


My Father Said Yes is the untold story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.


This memoir is also a moving father-son story. In this frank account, the author discusses the depression his father battled for most of his life, as well as the family tragedy of his brother's suicide.

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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration

Overview

On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away by the National Guard, who had been called out by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. "Blood will run in the streets," said Faubus, "if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School." A mob seethed out front. The man who led the Nine up to the lines of the National Guard on that fateful morning was the author's father, a white Presbyterian pastor.


My Father Said Yes is the untold story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.


This memoir is also a moving father-son story. In this frank account, the author discusses the depression his father battled for most of his life, as well as the family tragedy of his brother's suicide.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826515926
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Series: 0915608162: My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dunbar H. Ogden is Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley where, since 2000, he has taught a freshman seminar based on the events in this book.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations     ix
Foreword   Archbishop Desmond Tutu     xi
Acknowledgments     xv
Timetable     xix
"Led by a well-dressed white man in a light suit."     1
"Blood will run in the streets." Fall 1957     21
"I didn't know it could cut so deep." Spring 1958     79
"No preacher is going to run me off from my church." Summer 1958     107
"He taught by his actions." Little Rock Anniversary, 1997     127
Notes     157
Index     161
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