September 27, 2012

On May 29, 1958, after seeing through the historic school year amid racial tensions, senior Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine, became the first African-American student to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County). He is shown here posing in his traditional graduation regalia.

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