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The Little Rock School District is a school district in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. ... Nal Williams, a member of the board from 1904 to 1905; and Robert M ...
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis , in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus , the Governor of Arkansas .
[7]: 303 By February 1959, Arkansas State Representative T. E. Tyler drafted a bill that would allow Governor Faubus to appoint three temporary members to the Little Rock School Board. WEC members confronted Tyler on the bill, who responded by telling the women to "please shut up" and admitting that the law was "a little on the dictator side".
Brownie Ledbetter (1950)—Political activist and member of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools that lobbied for the re-opening of Little Rock Central High School during the Little Rock Integration Crisis. Calvin Ledbetter, Jr. (1946)—Educator and politician; member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1967–1977).
A North Little Rock school was renamed to honor the North Little Rock Six, 60 years after the six African American students made history.
From 1929 to 1933, Terry served as a member of the Little Rock School Board. Political career. He was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1933.
The prohibition is being challenged by two teachers and two students at Little Rock Central High School, site of the 1957 desegregation crisis. In his 50-page ruling, Rudofsky said the state’s ...
In 1958 Terry founded the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools as a critical response to the Little Rock Crisis over school integration. [20] Her leadership of the white women of Little Rock was a major obstacle to the efforts of Governor Orval Faubus to keep the schools from integrating. [21] "In 1959, the WEC, black voters, and a ...