Special activities in September, 1997, will draw attention to the impact of the integration crisis that centered around Little Rock Central High School in 1957-58.

Front Page Nation-World Arkansas-Local Editorial-Voices Sports Business Features-Style Classified Ads Acrobat PDFs Business Matters Business & Tech Weekend Section Movies & Dining Previous Features Photo Gallery Useful Links Info & E-mail Archives TV Listings Weather HISTORIC FRONT PAGES FROM THE Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette Forty years ago, conflict over integration of Little Rock ...

OPENING DOORS AND MINDS SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 NEWSHOUR TRANSCRIPT Forty years ago, nine students faced jeering crowds as they walked through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Today, President Clinton welcomed the Little Rock Nine through those same doors to commemorate the anniversary of school desegregation. After a background report by Tom Bearden, journalist Haynes ...

School Integration in Little Rock, Arkansas: Introduction Although most school districts at least attempted to integrate following the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, some school districts, particularly those in the Deep South, actively avoided desegregation. One of the most famous cases involved Little Rock's Central High School, where Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus joined ...

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Home From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation by Karen Wolff Contents of Curriculum Unit 82.03.06: Narrative Introduction: The Significance of Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas Classroom Materials Sample Lesson Plans Annotated Teacher Bibliography Annotated Student Bibliography To Guide ...

Orty years ago this month, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was the site of one of the most important confrontations in the American civil rights movement. In this special area, The New York Times on America Online looks back at what happened in Little Rock in 1957 and 1958, as reported and photographed in the pages of The Times, as well as Times coverage of the landmark 1954 ...

Clinton to hold door for 'Little Rock Nine' September 25, 1997 Web posted at: 1:12 p.m. EDT (1312 GMT) LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (CNN) -- President Clinton Thursday will hold open a Little Rock schoolhouse door so nine black former students can enter, in a powerful symbolic repudiation of one of the ugliest incidents in U.S. civil rights history. Clinton is to speak at Central High School in Little ...

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