Celebrations and simulcasts took place at both Central High School and Second Baptist Church in Little Rock today, as a statue commemorating civil rights leader and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
Elizabeth Eckford
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The Central question: Can Arkansas’s governor make Black history disappear?
Arkansas politicians’ ongoing attack on an AP African American Studies class tees up scholars with fresh lessons on racism and censorship.
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Little Rock Nine member celebrates a new scholarship for AP African American Studies students
Elizabeth Eckford showed up to thank Central High teacher Ruthie Walls and other educators working to keep an embattled African American history class rolling amid the conservative onslaught.
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‘The whole world was counting on us’: The Little Rock Nine recall Central High desegregation
Former President Bill Clinton and others honored the members of the Little Rock Nine for their historic desegregation of Central High School in 1957. Seven members shared remarks that included notes of progress, the need for more and remembering the events of 65 years ago.
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History in a shoebox: New photographs of 1957 Central High discovered
Photographer Rita Henry found and printed negatives of photographs taken by Walter Riddick Jr. of Central’s desegregation.
Elizabeth Eckford
Civil Rights hero Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, will speak at the Statehouse Convention Center next Wednesday as part of the Clinton School speaker series.
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A face in the crowd: Ivanka turns up all over, including in Little Rock
Ivanka Trump‘s effort to wiggle into talks with international leaders at the G-20 meeting has spawned a deluge of photo memes — Ivanka at Yalta with FDR and Stalin, raising […]
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Remembering an ‘enemy of the people’ of 1957
David Margolick pays tribute today in a New York Times op-ed to Jerry Dhonau, the former Arkansas Gazette editorial writer who died recently. He invoked a modern theme.
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Students to honor Elizabeth Eckford with commemorative bench
Central High School’s Memory Project students, the National Park Service and community leaders gathered today at Park and 16th streets with Little Rock Nine member Elizabeth Eckford to break ground for a commemorative bench to honor Eckford.
