Segregationist Rally

Segregationist rally protest at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock (Pulaski County); August 1959.

Crowd of white people with American flags and holding signs "Race Mixing is Communism" "Stop the Race Mixing March of the AntiChrist" on the capitol steps

Photo by John T. Bledsoe, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / School Segregation and Desegregation

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Event

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