Little Rock

By JoshuaEgwuatu
  • Period: to

    1960s

  • First day of school for Central High shcool 6

    Little Rock, Arkansas was one of the first school to integrate. Unfortunately The Little Rock 9 were not welcomed.

  • First Full day of school

    President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort them to school.

  • First Large Scale Sit-in

    124 students walked into downtown Woolworths, S.H. Kress, and McClellan stores and asked to be served at the lunch counters

  • Sit in

    Nashville Student activists held fourth sit-in at the Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens stores.

  • First Sit-in Trials

    This was the first sit in trial

  • Bombing

    There was a bombing in Z. Alexander Looby's home.

  • The Civil Rights

    The Civil Rights Act was passed