• Front facade of Little Rock Central High School

    Little Rock Central High School

    National Historic Site Arkansas

55th Anniversary of the 1957 Desegregation Crisis at Central High School


Little Rock Central High School is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States.  The admission of nine African-American students to the formerly all-white Central High School was the most prominent national example of the implementation of Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

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Little Rock Central High School

Little Rock Central High School is the only functioning high school to be located within the boundary of a national historic site. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site