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Résumé du livre

"Little Rock, Arkansas, exploded into the American consciousness in September of 1957, when nine black pupils set off to attend Central High, a school of 1,900 white students. After a three-week standoff during which they faced National Guard troops and hate-filled white protesters, they finally made their way into class. One of the most extended fictional responses to their plight is this epic poem by Dora Teitelboim, a well-known poet of the American Yiddish left who immigrated from Poland to the US in 1932. Published in Paris in 1957, her poem is accompanied by a powerful illustration from the celebrated African American cartoonist and civil rights activist Ollie Harrington"--Black Struggle in Yiddish Literature (Yiddish Book Center website).