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Group of young white men in military uniform with flag

Older white men and women talking to each other with stone wall behind them

Adolphine and David Terry

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Old white woman standing next to dedication plaque with parked cars and crowd behind her

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Old white woman with glasses in dress sitting in chair next to ornate glass window in room

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Young white girl with bonnet and dress standing next to a tree

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Young white woman with braided hair in collared dress

Adolphine Krause Fletcher

African-American woman wearing dark colored dress with double strain shell necklace

White woman formally dressed smiling in earrings pearl necklace brooch ribbon bracelet holding gloves fur

Capital Citizens' Council Graphic

Capital Citizens' Council Graphic

Multistory brick school building with twin staircases leading to front with pool and trees in foreground

Central High School

Two teachers walking down an empty school hallway with lockers and a water fountain

Central High School

Crowd of white students outside school building with soldiers and military trucks in the background

Central High Students

African American man and three African American women leaving room labeled

Central High Students Leaving Federal Court, 1957

white man in helmet with gun faces group of African American teens

National Guardsman Confronts Students at Central High

African-American boy watching white protesters marching in distance

Desegregation Protest

White man in suit speaking into microphones outside classical stone building with guard and crowd with american flag and confederate flag

Desegregation of Central High School Protest Rally

Mixed group of people reflected as their younger selves in pool with multistory building behind them with text above that

Central High School Desegregation Commemorative Book

white man in suit and red tie on dais with other individuals, white and African American, in front of brick building labeled

Desegregation of Central High 50th Anniversary

Older African American man and woman at dinner table with younger African American boys and girls

Little Rock Nine Thanksgiving

Single-story brick building with

Charleston Desegregation Exhibit

Bench across the street from multistory brick building

African American woman walks surrounded by hostile white men and women

Elizabeth Eckford Denied Entrance to Central High

Group of young white men hanging an effigy from a tree

Typewritten paper titled

Dwight Eisenhower's Diary

Older African-American woman in yellow top white shirt and black pants sitting on bench outside brick building

Elizabeth Eckford

African-American woman speaking at lectern being filmed by mixed film crew at dedication ceremony

Elizabeth Eckford

White woman smiling in blue seated next to older white woman with glasses smiling in blue coat

Gordy and Huckaby

Young black man in suit tie glasses mustache at podium with round sign

Black man in graduation gown outside brick stadium among graduates and people in suits dresses

White man in glasses and suit shaking hands with young African-American man in cap and gown

Ernest Green Receives Diploma

Young African-American man in graduation robe with cap

Old African-American woman with glasses in pink shirt in library

Group school photo with matching white girls and one black girl on bleachers below flag

Hoxie: Glee Club

Two black men standing and one seated in library wearing suits jackets and ties gazing downwards

Silas Hunt (seated); Wiley Branton (standing left); and Harold Flowers

Crowd of white policemen in uniform and white protesters in street behind a barricade

Little Rock Protesters

Angry white crowd surrounding young African-American girl sitting on bench with white woman talking to her

Grace Lorch and Elizabeth Eckford

White man speaking at desk with white hand working camera in the foreground

Lost Year Class

African-American girl taking notes during a television class at home

Lost Year Student

Young white girl in dress with bow in her hair playing with toy on small table

Mary Fletcher Terry

Young white girl with cat and dog in baby carriage outdoors

Mary Fletcher Terry

Old African-American woman smiling while holding a framed photograph

Minnijean Brown Trickey

Election flyer reading

Mothers' League of Central High School Flyer

three African American men stand in front of stone steps leading to multistory stone building

Three of the North Little Rock Six

White man in black framed glasses in shirt and tie

Crowd of white people with American flags and holding signs

Segregationist Rally

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