60th Anniversary of Little Rock Central High School Integration
Little Rock Central High School held a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the integration of the Arkansas school. Speakers incl… read more
Little Rock Central High School held a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the integration of the Arkansas school. Speakers included former President Bill Clinton, Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), historian and professor Henry Louis Gates, and members of the Little Rock Nine, who were the nine black students escorted by federal troops into the school in 1957. close
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Laverne Bell-Tolliver Minister Bullock Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Little Rock, AR)
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