History of Little Rock Central High School
Personalities of the 1957 Crisis
African-American Education in Arkansas
Photo credits: Little Rock Central High School, ca. 1990s (NPS photo by Tod Swiecichowski); Daisy Gatson Bates, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, ca. 1950s (University of Arkansas Special Collections); Minnijean Brown, Jefferson Thomas, and Thelma Mothershed, 1957 (Arkansas History Commission, G1775 series). Monroe Elementary in Topeka, Kansas (NPS photo); "The Problem We All Live With (LIcensed by Norman Rockwell Lincensing, Niles, IL); Line drawing of Magnolia Mobile gas station line drawing (NPS photo); Quiz ribbon (Discovery Clip Art).
Education - Lesson Plans
Click on the following photographs to access the PDF files for 2004-2005 school year curriculum:
"All the World Is Watching Us:" The Crisis at Little Rock Central High School (Lesson #1)
Daisy Gatson Bates (Lesson #2)
"Great Things Happen in Small Places..."
Government Authority and Civil Rights Activism in Arkansas (Lesson #3)
You're the Justice! A Landmark Case in Supreme Court History (Lesson #4)
Teaching Empathy: The Story of Ruby Bridges (Lesson #5)
