Little Rock

Examples of Little Rock in the following topics:

• Desegregation in Little Rock

  • The Little Rock Nine was a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • Little Rock was located in the relatively progressive Southern state of Arkansas.
  • In Little Rock, the capital city of Arkansas, the Little Rock School Board agreed to comply with the high court's ruling.
  • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

• The Brown Decision

  • As late as 1957, three years after the decision, a crisis erupted in Little Rock, Arkansas when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard on September 4 to prevent entry to the nine African-American students (known as the Little Rock Nine) who had sued for the right to attend an integrated school, Little Rock Central High School.
  • Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock, asked the President to send federal troops to enforce integration and protect the nine students.
  • He deployed elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to protect the students.
  • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957, National Archives.
  • The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

• Women of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Daisy Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
  • After two years and still no progress, a suit was filed against the Little Rock School District in 1956.
  • As the leader of NAACP branch in Arkansas, Bates guided and advised the nine black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, who were to be integrated into the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • In the 1958-59 school year, however, public schools in Little Rock were closed in another attempt to roll back desegregation.
  • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the "Little Rock Nine" African American students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

• The Eisenhower Administration

  • However,  In 1957, he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas after Governor Orval Faubus attempted to defy a federal court order calling for desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
  • The soldiers escorted nine African-American students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine, to Little Rock Central High School.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • As late as 1957, three years after the decision, a crisis erupted in Little Rock, Arkansas when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called out the National Guard on September 4 to prevent entry to the nine African-American students who had sued for the right to attend an integrated school, Little Rock Central High School.
  • He deployed elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to protect the students.

• Conclusion: WWII and the U.S.

  • In addition, labor strikes rocked the nation, in some cases exacerbated by racial tensions due to African-Americans having taken jobs during the war and now being faced with irate returning veterans who demanded that they step aside.
  • After the initial hurdles of the 1945-48 period were overcome, many Americans found themselves flush with cash from wartime work due to there being little to buy for several years.
  • Governor Orval Eugene Faubus of Arkansas used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent school integration at Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort nine black students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, after the Supreme Court declared school segregation to be unconstitutional (1957).  

• Modern Republicanism

  • He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time since the Reconstruction to enforce federal court orders to desegregate public schools.

• Rock and Roll

  • The rock music of the 1960s had its roots in rock and roll, but also drew strongly on genres such as blues, folk, jazz, and classical.
  • It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll.
  • By the late 1960s, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion.
  • Psychedelic rock peaked in the final years of the decade.
  • Several rock historians have claimed that rock and roll was one of the first music genres to define an age group, giving teenagers a sense of belonging.

• Art and Music

  • It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll.
  • By the late 1960s, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion.
  • They went on to become the biggest-selling rock band of all time.
  • During this festival, 32 rock acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 people.
  • During the 1960s, psychedelic visual arts were often a counterpart to psychedelic rock music.

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • The tribes that depended on the buffalo were left with little choice but to accept the government offer of reservations, where the government would feed and supply them on condition they did not go on the warpath.
  • The US agent at Standing Rock Agency expressed concern that this was insufficient time for the Lakota to respond, as deep winter restricted travel.
  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.