Little Rock is no stranger to national attention. All eyes turned to Arkansas’s capital when, in 1957, nine brave Black high school students crossed lines of protesters to effectively desegregate a ...
In 1982, Ebony magazine commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 1957 Central High crisis with a story titled “Little Rock Revisited.” The city had made halting progress over the past quarter-century, ...
Learn about the city’s role in the Civil Rights Movement at the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Cheese dip is said to have been invented in Little Rock—try some of the best in ...