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Touring a time: Little Rock Central High School 1957 crisis

Virtual tour, timeline, and lesson plans related to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

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Creator
AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)

Contributor to Resource
United States. National Park Service

Date of Original
1954/1958

People
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961

Location
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959

Medium
instructional materials
timelines (chronologies)
maps
lesson plans
photographs

Type
Collection

Description
Web site documenting events surrounding the 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School integration crisis. The site includes a timeline of events from the Brown v. Board of Education United States Supreme Court decision in 1954 to the closing of public schools in Little Rock in 1958. It also includes virtual tours of the Little Rock Central High School building, the Central High School visitors center; a map of the Central High School historic district, and photo galleries of the school, a nearby commemorative garden, and a memorial on the grounds of the state capitol. The site links to National Park Service lesson plans about the school integration crisis., 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.

Metadata URL
http://centralhigh.aetn.org/

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)

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Creator:: AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)
Date of Original:: 2005
Collection:: Touring a time: Little Rock Central High School 1957 crisis
Contributing Institution:: AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)

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