Arkansas National Guardsman Bob Evans, top right, blocks the way of African-American students attempting to enter Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957, in Little Rock, Ark., 24 hours ...

For three weeks in September 1957, Little Rock was the focus of a showdown over integration as Gov. Orval Faubus blocked nine black students from enrolling at a high school with about 2,000 white ...

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site sign The Little Rock School Board adopted a six-year phased plan, but a follow-up Supreme Court ruling in 1955 defined the standard of ...

It was close enough. And it was also called the most beautiful high school in America, so who wouldn't want to go," said Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine. Brown Trickey ...

Credit: Mary Hennigan Seven of the eight living members of the Little Rock Nine recounted their historic desegregation of Central High School on Sunday before Former President Bill Clinton ...

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.

The integration effort was a part of an ongoing process to desegregate schools in the South, which was headlined by the Little Rock Nine at Little Rock Central High School, just a few miles away ...

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 ...

At the same time that a bundle of school-desegregation cases ... a year before the Little Rock crisis, 12 Black students walked toward Clinton High to be educated with about 800 white classmates.