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
Subject
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Education
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
African American high school students--Arkansas--Little Rock
High school students--Arkansas--Little Rock
Students--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intervention (Federal government)--Arkansas--Little Rock
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas--Little Rock
Government, Resistance to--Southern States
African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc.
Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc.
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.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)
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