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Little Rock Central High opened in 1927 and was desgregated in 1957.
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All Fayetteville Public Schools (Washington County) desgregate being 1st to do so. (Go Woodland!)
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A seperate but equal case related to the Plessy v. Ferguson case, but this case canceled the sperate but equal deal in schools.
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A court ruling that complied with the Brown vs. Board of Education deal to get rid of segregation.
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All public schools in Charleston (Franklin County) desgregate. They are also the 2nd school system to do so.
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The last graduating class of Dunbar High after the segregation of Arkansas Public Schools.
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Emmett Till dies after whistling at a married white women.
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Hoxie are the 3rd place in Arkansas to desgreate!
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A document written that opposed racial integration in all public places.
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Horace Mann school opens, an all black school.
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A council with about 60,000 members that oppsed racial integration.
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The expected date of Little Rock Central High... just like it says.
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Govener Overal Fabus gives the command to the National Gaurd to prevent the Little Rock Nine from getting into the Central High.
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Federal Judge orders Fabus to desgregate but he refuses.
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Elizibeth Eckford is denied entry to Little Rock Central High after a miscommunication and arrived late.
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After an order given by the president the Little Rock Nine are escorted to school.
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Minnijean Brown is expeled after dumping chiles on a white girl.
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A year were Govener Faubus ordered that the Central High school should close to prevent the Little Rock Nine from going there. What an extremist.
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One of the Little Rock Nine was first African American to ever graduate from school in Arkansas.
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Fedearl Count has had its last straw with Fabus and demands that Little Rock Central Rock High must open or else.
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Martin Luther King Jr. marchs on Washington and makes his "I have a dream" speech.
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President John signs the Civil Rights act giving blacks all the same rights as whites, except for voting.
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Malcome X is murdered in a ball room after being shot by a guy with a sawed-off shotgun and then another 16 times by 2 guys with a handgun. Was proclaimed dead at 3:30 shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
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A group of protesters tried to march but were intercepter on Edmund Pettus Bridge were a wall of state troopers stopped them and beat them for not going back.
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Another Act is made which prohibited any state to deny people voting rights.
