November 29, 1957

During the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock (Pulaski County), the Arkansas State Press, a newspaper founded by civil rights pioneers L. C. and Daisy Bates, noted in a front-page editorial, “The Negro is angry, because the confidence that he once had in Little Rock in keeping law and order, is questionable as the 101st paratroopers leave the city.” The State Press was the sole newspaper in Arkansas to demand an immediate end to segregated schools.