Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of nine teenagers who helped to break the bonds of segregation when they were the first Black ...
Today, Little Rock Central High School is a National Historic Site ... kitty-corner to the school and features exhibits about the desegregation crisis as well as a book store.
“Nobody persuaded me,” she said about signing up to go to Central High School ... specific groups that know the story of desegregation in Little Rock 67 years ago,” she said.
When Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20, those who attended an annual program on Friday afternoon will have a lot to think about. The event, entitled “Martin Luther King Jr.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Little Rock elementary school principal sent a letter to school families after a student’s death. The ...
Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of nine Black teenagers who enrolled at an all-white school following the passage of Brown vs. Board of Education.
Just 15 years old at the time, Brown-Trickey's attendance at Little Rock Central High School was the start ... an angry mob to help set on a path of desegregation in public schools," Rita Jett ...
The president ordered the withdrawal of the country from the Paris climate agreement and took action on immigration policy ...
The keynote speaker, President of the NAACP Arkansas State Convention Barry Jefferson, spoke about getting the invitation to ...