Arkansas Times

New museum marks nearly forgotten Arkansas school desegregation struggle that occurred before Little Rock Nine

It’s not a competition to her, but Ethel Tompkins wants the world to know that in Arkansas, Hoxie’s school integration crisis came first.
Yahoo

On This Day in History: The Little Rock Nine integrated Central High School, defying segregation

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Sept. 27, 1957, file photo, two paratrooper officers escort black students from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

Civil rights pioneer says after almost 70 years, story of the Little Rock Nine still 'resonates'

Long before her work as an anti-racist educator and environmental campaigner in Canada, Minnijean Brown-Trickey showed ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown Trickey encourages advocacy, activism over inaction during MLK vigil

Members of the Little Rock Nine "were all targets" at Central, but that virulent opposition made them into "heroes," Brown Trickey noted. Had the backlash against their school attendance not been such ...
KTHV

Carlotta Walls LaNier, member of the Little Rock Nine, shares her story with new children's book

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In 1954, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision, ruling that segregation was illegal after hearing arguments in the Brown v. Board of Education case. This marked the formal end ...
KTHV

68 years ago, the Little Rock Nine arrived to integrate into Central High

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It was 68 years ago today that Little Rock Central made national headlines when 10 Black students arrived to enter the school — that day would become a historic moment, signaling ...