Education; Little Rock Central High School; Violence; African-Americans; Blacks
The FBI launched an investigation into violence aimed at the nine black students integrating Little Rock Central High School. Miss Beverly Burks was a 10th grader at the school, 1957.
Jimmy Karam; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Jimmy Karam, a Little Rock businessman was one of the leaders of the anti-integrationist movement during the Little Rock Central High School Crisis in 1957.
Integration; Racism; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Mother's League; Women's Emergency Committee; Margaret C. Jackson
Advertisment by the segregationist Mothers League of Little Rock "to expose" the Women's Emergency Committee.
Desegregation; Racism; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); White Citizens Council
Photograph of Little Rock 9 students being escorted into Central High School by troops of the 101st Airborne Division, from White Citizens Council magazine
Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Aaron v. Cooper
In light of the Federal decision in Cooper vs. Aaron, Little Rock Board of Education issue official notice of plans to proceed with gradual desegregation of Little Rock public schools.