• Front facade of Little Rock Central High School

    Little Rock Central High School

    National Historic Site Arkansas

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  • Restricted Access to Central High School

    All visitors should park and begin their visit at the National Park Service Visitor Center at 2120 West Daisy Gatson Bates Drive. Do NOT park in front of Central High School or at the Magnolia Gas Station. All school tours require advance reservations.

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Elizabeth Eckford waits on a bus bench with her head in her hand as segregationist protestors surround her, yelling at her, September 4, 1957.

Elizabeth Eckford waits on a bus bench as segregationist protestors surround her, September 4, 1957.

NPS

Oral History Interview Segments
Click here to view short video segments from the park's oral history collection

 
Inside the cafeteria at Little Rock Central High School.

Click here to view a photo tour of Little Rock Central High
School.



 
U.S. Army troops roll into Little Rock at night, under a billboard reading "Who Will Build Arkansas if her own people will not?" September 1957.

Photo by Larry Obsitnik.  University of Arkansas Libraries.

Click here to view a great new website from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Special Collections Department. The site includes photographs and other primary sources that document the civil rights struggle in Arkansas.
 
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Little Rock Central High School

Little Rock Central High School is the only functioning high school to be located within the boundary of a national historic site. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site