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a state court judge issued an injunction against members of the Little Rock school board. They were ordered to stop the implementation of the federal court's integration plan at Central High ...
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely integrated Little Rock’s Central High School on ...
Virtual Author Talk with Dr. Melba Pattillo BealsHartford Public Library/ The BushnellHartfordMay 7, 2025 It’s not often that ...
It’s appropriately uncomfortable when interpretive park ranger Jazmyn Bernard starts chanting “two, four, six, eight — we don ...
selected nine black students for enrolment at Central High School. On September 4, 1957, after several attempts by the governor to prevent integration, the Little Rock Nine, namely Gloria Ray ...
He was the first African American to walk out of the school with a diploma. As for the rest of the students, they either ...
Today, Little Rock Central High School is a National Historic Site ... kitty-corner to the school and features exhibits about the desegregation crisis as well as a book store.