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The 101st Airborne Division stayed in Little Rock until November. Television news was in its infancy when desegregation was underway, so the Little Rock crisis was among the first news stories filmed ...
in Little Rock, Ark., following the school’s desegregation. Students are watched by soldiers and reporters as they leave Little Rock Central High School in September 1957, in Little Rock ...
“Little Rock Nine (Turning Points)” by Marshall Poe was reviewed by the school district last fall after a parent complained about racial slurs in the text, according to the Florida Freedom to ...
It commemorated the first time the Little Rock Nine walked through the doors for the first time. However, as the group returned to commemorate the day they also confronted current issues in Arkansas.
Thelma Mothershed-Wair and the rest of the Little Rock Nine was responsible for the desegregation of the Little Rock Central High School, as they became the first African American students to ...
The Little Rock Nine's historic and brave acts helped ... sits kitty-corner to the school and features exhibits about the desegregation crisis as well as a book store. There is also a ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — South Park Street in front of Central High School in Little Rock was renamed as "Little Rock Nine Way" in a ceremony Sunday afternoon. The program was put on by the city of ...
“There are two specific groups that know the story of desegregation in Little Rock 67 years ago,” she said. “The people who are bold enough to watch the 6 o’clock news every night and ...
National Guard was activated most often during the Civil Rights Era Desegregation of Central High School and the ‘Little Rock crisis’ (1957) In September of 1957, three years after the U.S ...
A historian gave a talk to a small group on Saturday that included the younger sister of Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the Little Rock Nine, at the Central High Visitor Center on the post ...
This year marked the 67th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School when the Little Rock Nine were finally able to walk through the doors for the very first time. She was born on ...