Lost Year Student

An African-American student in Little Rock (Pulaski County) watching a class on television during the year the city’s high schools were closed to avoid desegregation; 1958.

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

Photo by Thomas J. O'Holloran, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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