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History always repeats itself, but what happens if you never learn your lesson the first time? As President Donald Trump continues his deportation mandate, many are concerned his disregard for court ...
The event tested the South’s resistance to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. As photos and accounts of the Little Rock Nine hit ...
The students desegregated Little Rock Central High School. Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of ...
(1954), stating segregation of public schools is a violation of the 14th amendment and therefore unconstitutional. Members of the 101st Airborne Division take up positions outside Little Rock ...
Segregation was an idea carried to absurdity ... As ever, an unruly mob lay in wait, which turned ugly when they mistook a group of black journalists for the Little Rock Nine. In the maelstrom of ...
When her school made an announcement asking if anyone wanted to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, she signed up. “That’s how easy it is to do things,” she said.
While the decision dismantled the legal framework for racial segregation in public schools, it did not specify how or when states would integrate their schools. A series of legal maneuverings between ...
Photos that line the home page of Little Rock Central High School today paint ... rights activist who took on the battle to end school segregation in Arkansas and won. American Civil Rights ...
ABC News gets inside look at courtroom restored as "monument to rule of law." LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court ordered an end to racial segregation in America's schools ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Thelma Mothershed-Wair, a civil rights pioneer, was laid to rest this weekend. KATV was invited to attend the wake and ceremony of Mothershed-Wair, who died at the age of 83.