Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision supporting school integration, the Little Rock, Arkansas School Board agreed to integrate by the 1957/1958 school year.
"In 1957, nine brave, black students pioneered a path for thousands of future scholars in the halls of this great school. September 25, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the integration of Central High."
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas has an excellent, illustrated article on the Little Rock Nine, with links to additional articles on the desegregation of Central High, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, and the Lost Year.
Although it was written ten years ago to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of " One of America's Most Important Civil Rights Events," the site is still valuable today.
PBSKids presents a single-page overview of school desegregation and the civil rights movement of the fifties.
Lisa Cozzens was a Brown University undergraduate when she started this Black History website in 1998.
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