How Segregation Has Persisted in Little Rock. Nearly 60 years after the integration of Central High, the city’s schools are still divided by race. By Alana Semuels.

Spring has arrived and the pink blossoms of the crape myrtle trees are all over town, but talk in this city of changing colors has returned once again to less harmonious hues: black and white. More… ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Travelers players visited Little Rock Central High School this week to reflect on Juneteenth and learn more about the legacy of the Little Rock Nine. Juneteenth, ...

Now, the Little Rock Nine are commemorating the 60th anniversary of Central High's desegregation by bringing light to the continuing problem of segregation in the nation's public schools. About ...

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is ranked #1 out of 16 things to do in Little Rock. ... Board of Education, which ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.

During the Little Rock segregation crisis, Roman Catholic parochial schools of Arkansas seemed so safely segregated that many Protestant parents began sending their children to them. The Roman ...

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of nine teenagers who helped to break the bonds of segregation when they were the first Black students to attend Little Rock Central High School.

The Little Rock crisis of September 1957 pitted nine black schoolchildren against the brute force of southern racism in one of the most climactic struggles of the civil rights era. ... 17 May 1954: ...

Typical of its peers, the former segregation school Pulaski Academy, in Little Rock, now has a non-discriminatory admissions policy but a student body that is 8 percent Black, in a city where ...

Little Rock students nail Sarah Huckabee Sanders for using their school to 'usher in a new era of segregation' Travis Gettys. March 1, 2023 1:40PM ET.

little rock, ark. — On this day in 1957, nine black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school. Watch the video above to see the full story.