This week at ITPL, the history podcast, I speak with historian Erin Krutko Devlin, author Remember Little Rock, a book about the famous 1957 Civil Rights desegregation crisis. We’ll talk about the crisis and the courageous role played by the students known as the Little Rock Nine. But we’ll also discuss how Little Rock has become part of a problematic triumphant American history narrative of racial progress that blinds us to persistence of racial inequality.