In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been all-white since its construction in 1927. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green ...
25, wasn’t the first day the Little Rock Nine tried to attend classes at the high school Classes at Little Rock Central High School had already been in session for at least three weeks ...
The Little Rock community reflects on monumental Black history in central Arkansas in honor of Black History Month.
If you have extra time, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is worthwhile. In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The ...
Blossom’s plan was a compromise, allowing a small amount of integration, but it led to huge resistance. The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election to stop ...
When her school made an announcement ... to when she was one of the “Little Rock Nine" — the first Black students to go to Little Rock Central High School. “Nobody persuaded me,” she ...