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 ...

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 coordinated campaign to defy Brown v. Board continues to shape education today, as many schools remain racially segregated and unequal in funding and resources.

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 ...