In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been ... they were met with a racist mob of white students as well as about 270 soldiers who barred the ...
a group of five adolescents were shot at just down the street from Little Rock Central High School. Officers responded to a shooting call on Tuesday at 15th and Schiller Street, in a residential ...
2, he said, to prevent Negroes from entering Central High School and to prevent ... night said he hurried federal troops to Little rock because "mob rule" there menaced the safety of the United ...
During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation. The first year at Central High School, Little Rock Superintendent Blossom reduced the number of black students who were permitted ...
SPRINGDALE -- Little Rock Central's ability to hit early three-point ... A life-long Arkansas resident, he has been involved in covering high school athletics in some capacity since 1985 overall ...
The Little Rock Nine integrated Central High School after the Supreme Court ... on the orders of the governor alongside an angry white mob numbering about 400 caused pandemonium.
In 1957, the same year of the Little Rock Nine desegregation at Central High School and ... Smith went to integrate the high school but were met with a mob and the superintendent denying them ...