ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this article is to tell, after 60 years, the case of educational racial desegregation that took place in Arkansas, Little Rock, United States of America, on September 4, 1957. To illuminate the social and political context of the controversial case, we resume the controversial essay by Hannah Arendt published in 1959, entitled Reflections on Little Rock. We tell the struggle of the American social movements linked to the black issue until the Little Rock case. We present various relationships between the Little Rock case and some categories of Arendtian thought, as common world and action. We evidence that two women were chosen to narrate Little Rock: Elizabeth Eckford and Hannah Arendt.
Keywords:
Social movements; Negro question; Policy; Education; Action