Daisy Gatson Bates played a major role in the integration of the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in 1957. Wednesday in Washington D.C, a new bronze statue of a Civil Rights icon ...

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 ...

Black students known as the Little Rock Nine were escorted into Little Rock Central High School by the US Military in 1957, desegregating the school amid racist protests and harassment.

Changes have been made to a webpage about Central High’s Memory Project, an annual assignment where high school students ...

Correspondent photos / Sean Barron Sojourn to the Past students ascended the steps at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, last week in a manner reminiscent of how nine black students ...

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 ...