The Magale Library at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will sponsor a book talk by Elizabeth Jacoway from 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, in Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
Jacoway will discuss her new book, “Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation,” which is about the Little Rock Central High crisis and its legacy.
Attendees of the discussion will learn what fears created the hysteria and forever shaped Arkansas’ capitol city. Memory, documented history, and oral history are combined in Jacoway’s interpretation of the trauma at Central High School.
A native of Little Rock, Jacoway attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966. She received her Ph.D. in American history at the University of North Carolina in 1974. She taught history at the college level for eight years at the University of Florida, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Arkansas College. Jacoway has served several times as a review panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she has reviewed manuscripts for many academic presses and scholarly journals.
A book sale and signing will follow the talk.
The discussion is free and open to the public.
For more information call Peggy Walters at 870-235-4171.
