Desegregation Protest at Capitol

Protesters in Little Rock (Pulaski County) demonstrating against the integration of Central High School; August 20, 1959.

White people holding signs with "Race Mixing is Communism" and other slogans

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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Time Period

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

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / Race / School Desegregation / School Segregation and Desegregation

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