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 ...
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 ...
On Saturday afternoon, Central won the Class 6A girls high school state wrestling championship at the Jack Stephens Center in Little Rock. "It's something that we've been working towards ...
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 ...
A new baseball field and a reimagined auditorium are coming to the Little Rock School District after the School Board... Lena Miano covers K-12 education for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.