Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Lost Year
Three female public school students watch a class on television in September 1958, during the Lost Year when Gov. Orval Faubus closed Little Rock's public high schools to avoid integration.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Violence
FBI report summarizing the events from September 6 to October 2, 1957, relating to the first few days after nine black students integrated Central High School, with particular emphasis on threats and violence aimed at the students.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Amis Guthridge
Letter from segregationist attorney Amis Guthridge requesting the Little Rock School Board provide separate schools for white students not wishing to attend school with black students.
Little Rock Central High School; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.)
Cartoon depicting one of the Little Rock Central High School's black students in a suit of armor on his way to class, alluding to the violence aimed at the nine students who integrated the school.
Integration; Civil Rights; University of Arkansas; African-Americans; Blacks; Fayetteville (Ark.)
Telegram from Arkansas State Auditor J. Oscar Humphrey and State Treasurer J. Vance Clayton protesting admittance of black students to the University of Arkansas, 1948.
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.
Politics and Government; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Act 7, passed in a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1958, allowed white students to choose whether they wanted to attend integrated classes or not.
Little Rock (Ark.) Nine; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Education; Integration
Ernest Green was one of the nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Green became the first black graduate of the school in 1958.
Integration; Civil Rights; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); John Walker
Telegram from attorney John Walker regarding Little Rock school's plans to bus black students to black schools in 1966, contrary to previous statements.
