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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Asa Hutchinson-controlled state Board of Education demonstrated its preference for school choice, even when federal court orders might be in conflict.
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.
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?
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.
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.