November 11, 2009

The public schools of Little Rock (Pulaski County), which were closed during the 1958 school year following the 1957 desegregation of Central High School, were reopened in 1959. Segregationists are shown here rallying at the Arkansas State Capitol to protest the reopening of the schools.

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