Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Cent...

Melba Pattillo Beals made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students invo...

Bentonville (Benton County) was one of the earliest school districts in Arkansas to admit African American stu...

Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Sc...

The Capital Citizens’ Council (CCC) was one of many similar organizations established throughout the South t...

Much has been written about the Little Rock School District desegregation in 1957. However, the Charleston Pub...

Formed in 1959 to bolster the segregationist cause in the aftermath of the desegregation of Central High Schoo...

The 1966 desegregation of schools at Des Arc (Prairie County) was accomplished under the leadership of Arkansa...

Elizabeth Ann Eckford made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students who...

Between 1954 and 1965, Fayetteville (Washington County) underwent the gradual integration of all primary and s...

Ernest Gideon Green made history as the only senior of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American student...

Hot Springs (Garland County), a tourist town, had one of the largest school districts in Arkansas at the time ...

During the summer and autumn of 1955, proponents and opponents of school integration across America were watch...

Silas Herbert Hunt was a veteran of World War II and a pioneer in the integration of higher education in Arkan...

Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American studen...

Carlotta Walls LaNier made history as the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American s...

The Little Rock Nine were the nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Cent...

“The Lost Year” refers to the 1958–59 school year in Little Rock (Pulaski County), when all the city’s...

Desegregation of schools in the Lower Arkansas River Valley began primarily because the one area school to whi...

Christopher Columbus Mercer Jr. was an advisor to Daisy Bates during the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Cen...

Inferior in numbers and public standing only to its sponsor, the Capital Citizens’ Council (CCC), the Mother...

The North Little Rock Six were six African American students who attempted to desegregate North Little Rock Hi...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, Ozark (Fr...

The Little Rock Panel of American Women was organized in 1963 by Sara Alderman Murphy. It was based on the nat...

James Wesley Pruden Sr., a Southern Baptist minister, was first chaplain and then president of the Little Rock...

Terrence James Roberts made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students wh...

Irene Gaston Samuel is best known for her work with the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC...

The information below is compiled primarily from regular reports on school desegregation published in the Ark...

The Six Pioneers were the first six African American students to attend the University of Arkansas School of L...

A hastily formed organization created during the “Lost Year” of 1958–59—in which Little Rock (Pulaski ...

Jefferson Allison Thomas made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students ...