Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, created in 1998, preserves and interprets the story of the 1957 crisis at Central High School, where a conflicted community reacted in violent ...

A piece of history that sat for decades in a small federal courtroom in Little Rock is being restored with plans for it to become a living history exhibit for its role in the desegregation of Little ...

A free multimedia concert with the theme of racial amity is the main event for this month's 66th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's dauntless desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It's been 66 years since nine Black students walked through the doors at Little Rock Central High School for their official first day. The turbulent year of 1957 and the actions by ...

Each morning, Little Rock Nine student Melba Pattillo "polished my saddle shoes and went off to war." Elizabeth Huckaby, then Central's vice principal for girls, is quoted from a letter to her brother ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s. But when Thomas became one of nine black ...

They were just trying to go to school. But when nine Black students attempted to enter the all-white Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957, they were turned away by the Arkansas National ...

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Before going south on a civil rights trip organized by the Nation Magazine, I had never been to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was only vaguely familiar with the struggle ...

After a showdown between Gov. Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower, the Little Rock Nine entered Central High School on Sept. 25, 1957 - escorted by members of the 101st Airborne. The U.S. Supreme ...

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Delivered in the mail at the district clerk’s office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: Sixty years ago, the Little Rock Nine became a symbol of heroism in the throes of racial progress, but their bravery made many whites dig their heels in further ...