Several of the Little Rock Nine leave Central under federal troop escort.
Learn more about the nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. More...
Flyer for the Women's Emergency Committee
Click here to learn more about the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools. More...
See Mike Wallace interview Orval Faubus and Harry Ashmore in 1957 by following these links to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Orval Faubus
Did You Know?
When it was built in 1927, the American Institute of Architects named Central High School, "The Most Beautiful High School in America." Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site