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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Little Rock Central High School National Historic SiteLittle Rock Central High School under construction in 1927.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides
Lesson 1  "All the World is Watching Us": The Crisis at Little Rock Central High School, 1954-1957.
 
Lesson 2   Daisy Lee Gatson Bates
 
Lesson 3  "Great things happen in small places..."  Government Authority and Civil Rights Activism in Arkansas (1954-1959)
 
Lesson 4   You're the Justice!  A Landmark Case in Supreme Court History
 
Lesson 5   Teaching Empathy: The Story of Ruby Bridges
 
Lesson 6   Every Person Has a Story of Courage: The Little Rock Nine
 
Lesson 7   The Fourteenth Amendment
 
Lesson 8   Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
 
Lesson 9  Desegregation:  Past, Present, and Future
2009 Constitution Day Activities - Click here to download activities and ideas for Constitution Day, September 17th.
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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