- Collection:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Photographs Collection
- Title:
- Seven black students escorted to Central High School by a National Guard officer
- Publisher:
- Little Rock, Ark. : Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
- Date of Original:
- 1962/2026
- Subject:
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Little Rock Public Schools (Little Rock, Ark.)
African Americans--Education--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Arkansas. National Guard - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, 34.76993, -92.3118
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, Central High School, 34.73683, -92.29895 - Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Seven black students walk onto the campus of Central High School escorted by a National Guard Officer.
Recto: (LR1) Little Rock, Ark. Oct. 15-- Enter with single escort -- seven of the nine Negro students walk onto the campus of integrated Central High School here this morning with a single National Guard officer as escort. Other guards who arrived with the station wagon carrying them stand at curb in foreground. (AP Wirephoto) (fk30930st-fk) 1957
This project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Council on Library and Information Resources. - Metadata URL:
- http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15728coll1/id/13318
- Additional Rights Information:
- Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site believes this item is covered by our copyright, fair use, or public domain. If you claim copyright, contact the National Historic Site.
- Extent:
- 5 x 7 in
- Original Collection:
- Central High Museum, Inc. papers (CHSC 314)
History of Segregation and Integration of Arkansas's Educational System - Contributing Institution:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
- Rights:
-
