Academics aside, such schools are often also hampered by decades of underfunding and racial and economic segregation. Little Rock, with Interstate 630 as the dividing line between majority black ...

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… ...

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, 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, ...

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 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.

Hundreds of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, sent by an outraged President Eisenhower on Sept. 25, 1957, escorted nine African-American students, dubbed the Little Rock ...

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 ...

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.

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.