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The reverse depicts an image of Little Rock Central High School, c. 1957. Proceeds from the coin sales were used to improve the National Historic Site. On December 9, 2008, the Little Rock Nine were invited to attend the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, the first African-American to be elected President of the United States. [39]
Little Rock Central High School (LRCH) is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of the Little Rock Crisis in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation by race in public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier.
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
On September 25th in 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas became integrated. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort and enforce the federal court order that allowed ...
A group that integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when it was segregated by race has come out to decry Arkansas barring AP African American studies from counting toward credit for ...
Ernest Gideon Green (born September 22, 1941) is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green was the first African-American to graduate from the school in 1958.
Surviving members of the Little Rock Nine – Black students who were the first to desegregate schools and break the color barrier in Arkansas – said they are “as bewildered as they were ...
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine students who attended segregated black high schools in Little Rock, the capital of the state of Arkansas. They each volunteered when the NAACP and the national civil rights movement obtained federal court orders to integrate the prestigious Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957. The Nine ...