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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Little Rock Central High School National Historic SiteThe statues on the front of Central High School are likenesses of Greek gods and goddesses.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
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curriculum materials includes:

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Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown Trickey conducts workshop on nonviolence with high school students.

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Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the "Little Rock Nine," conducts a nonviolence workshop with high school students.

The education staff at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site offers several lesson plans and curriculum materials for use in your classroom. Please click on the links above to download the materials.
U.S. Army troops roll into Little Rock September 24, 1957 under a billboard reading
Online Resources
Click here to go to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's new website about AR civil rights.
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Visitors sit underneath flags on the National Mall with the Lincoln Memorial in the background.
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Telegram sent by Eisenhower to Governor Orval Faubus in 1957  

Did You Know?
In 1957 President Eisenhower sent soldiers into Arkansas to enforce the federal court's order to desegregate Central High - becoming the first president since Reconstruction to use federal troops to support African American civil rights. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

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