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Little Rock Central High School National Historic SiteThe statues on the front of Central High School are likenesses of Greek gods and goddesses.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
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Learn more about the people who made history at Little Rock Central High School.  Download a Jr. Ranger booklet and click on the links on this page for more information.

 
Summer field school participants at Central High.
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Summer Field School, 2005.

Participants in the Summer Field School program pose with Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown Trickey inside of Central High.

 
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Jefferson Thomas faces National Guard troops in 1957.
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Segregationist card distributed after Minnijean Brown's expulsion  

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Minnijean Brown, one of the nine African American students who desegregated Central High School in 1957, was expelled in February 1958 for retaliating against repeated harassment. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

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