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Posts tagged
'1957 desegregation crisis'

From Willisville to Washington: Sen. Joyce Elliott is ready to school Congress

Sen. Joyce Elliott was the second Black graduate of her newly integrated high school. If elected, she’ll be the first Black lawmaker Arkansas sends to Congress. 
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Melba Pattilo Beals bluntly fields questions about 1957 at Central High

Blunt talk from Melba Pattillo Beals, a memvber of the Little Rock Nine, in a Q&A session on Quora. No white classmates have ever apologized for mistreatment of the Nine, she says.
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Freedom of Choice, the segregation battle cry of the 60s, is now Arkansas law

The state Board of Education today voted 6-1 to reject requests from Camden-Fairview, Hope, Lafayette County and Junction City to be exempt from the state law requiring students to be able to freely transfer between school districts."Freedom of choice" and the segregation it encourages are now the official policy of Arkansas.

Tom Cotton blistered for lying for Trump; silence of GOP politicians also made statements yesterday

Tom Cotton is blasted for defending Donald Trump's racism. It probably won't hurt him in Arkansas, as evidenced by defeaning silence on the topic from other Republican politicians.
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Central High students develop app and tour to allow visitors to walk in the footsteps of the LR Nine.

A team of Little Rock Central High School students is working with the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site to develop an app that leads visitors on a walking tour that follows in the footsteps of Little Rock Nine member Elizabeth Eckford as she tried to attend classes on her first day at Central High on Sept. 4, 1957.

The highs and lows of Arkansas's observance of a joint King-Lee holiday

It's a state holiday today to observe the birthdays of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee, the general who led the secessionist states' fight to preserve slavery. From the files of history, King's famous speech and the segregationist roots of the Lee Holiday observance in Arkansas.
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El Dorado challenges state Board transfer decision; raises broad question about 'choice' vs. segregation

The El Dorado School District HAS gone to federal court in response to the state Board of Education's approval, over El Dorado's objection, of the transfer of a white student from El Dorado to the majority white Parkers Chapel School District.

State Board of Education ignores court orders, approves school transfers; charter school train rolls on

The Asa Hutchinson-controlled state Board of Education demonstrated its preference for school choice, even when federal court orders might be in conflict.
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The Atlantic: Segregation persists in Little Rock

Alana Samuels, a writer for The Atlantic, turns again to Little Rock for material, this time an expansive article on continuing segregation in Little Rock schools.

Federal complaint challenges charter schools on civil rights ground

A complaint to the federal Office of Civil Rights filed by the ACLU in Delaware alleges that publicly funded and privately managed charter schools in that state are resegregating the education system in violation of civil rights law. Sound familiar?
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ACLU thanks school district for response to Maumelle High 'blacks-only' assembly, asks for diversity training

The ACLU suggested that district officials might want to consider diversity training for staff, and that it reach out to parents to promote their involvement in the special desegregation programs.

PCSSD on blacks-only assembly at Maumelle High School: " we were wrong, and we won’t do it again"

In a letter to the state's ACLU chapter, counsel for the Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) stated bluntly that singling out black students for an assembly at Maumelle High School on gang violence was wrong and would not happen again.
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