Little Rock Central High School

It was a very humbling experience to go through the Visitor Center and stand across the street from where the school desegregation crisis occurred in the infancy of TV and was among the first news stories filmed as events unfolded and covered daily. In 1957, nine African American students were denied entrance to the all-white Little Rock Central High School, and following the failure of talks with Gov. Orval Faubus, President Eisenhower called out the US Army to escort the students into the school. Little Rock later came to be known as the city where the federal government took a stand on ending segregation. Central High is still an operating high school attended by more than 2,000 students. You can visit the grounds in front of the school.