The primary test for desegregation occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, at Central High School, when its doors opened on September 4, the first day of school. Daisy Gaston Bates ...

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 ...

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

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.

2, he said, to prevent Negroes from entering Central High School and to prevent ... abroad are gloating over the school integration riots in Little Rock and using it to misrepresent the United ...

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 ...

During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation. The first year at Central High School, Little Rock Superintendent Blossom reduced the number of black students who were permitted ...