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Creator: | Miller, Laura A. |
Title: | Desegregation of Central High School |
Date: | 1954-1957 |
Description: | Entry on the event of the Desegregation of Central High School, the crisis that followed the attempt of nine African-American students to enroll at the all-white Little Rock high school. Article includes moving images, photographs, and documents. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
Types: | Articles | Photographs | Moving images | Texts (document genres) |
Subjects: | Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 | School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock | School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas--Little Rock | African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock | African Americans--Education | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) | African American high school students--Arkansas--Little Rock | High school students--Arkansas--Little Rock | Mobs--Arkansas--Little Rock | Soldiers--Arkansas--Little Rock | Students--Arkansas--Little Rock | Intervention (Federal government)--Arkansas--Little Rock | Federal-state controversies--Arkansas--Little Rock | Government, Resistance to--Southern States | Little Rock (Ark.) | Pulaski County (Ark.) |
Collection: | Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture |
Institution: | Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies |
Contributors: | Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture |
Online Publisher: | [Little Rock, Ark.] : The Central Arkansas Library System | 2006-04-04 |
Rights and Usage: | copyright Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture 2007 |
Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=718 |