In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate
Little Rock Central High School approached, veteran sportswriter
and native son of Little Rock Jay Jennings returned to his hometown
to take the pulse of the city and the school. He found a compelling
story in Central High's football team, where Black and white
students toiled under longtime coach Bernie Cox, whose philosophy
of discipline and responsibility and punishing brand of physical
football had led the team to win seven state championships. Carry
the Rock tells the story of the dramatic ups and downs of a high
school football season and reveals a city struggling with its
legacy of racial discrimination and the complex issues of
contemporary segregation. In the season Jennings masterfully
chronicles, Cox finds his ideas sorely tested in his attempts to
unify the team, and the result is an account brimming with humor,
compassion, frustration, and honesty. What Friday Night Lights did
for small-town Texas, Carry the Rock does for the urban South and
for any place like Little Rock where sports, race, and community
intersect.
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