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Desegregation of Central High School

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Miller, Laura A

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Entry on the event of the Desegregation of Central High School, the crisis that followed the attempt of nine African-American students to enroll at the all-white Little Rock high school. Article includes moving images, photographs, and documents.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.
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Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture

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Keywords

  1. African American High School Students
  2. African Americans
  3. Arkansas
  4. Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka
  5. Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Education
  8. Federal State Controversies
  9. Government
  10. Government, Resistance To
  11. High School Students
  12. Intervention (Federal Government)
  13. Little Rock
  14. Massive Resistance Movement
  15. Mobs
  16. School Integration
  17. Soldiers
  18. Southern States
  19. Students

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