Located in Little Rock, the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is run in partnership with Little Rock public schools and the National Park Service. It has a visitor center that displays a film commemorating the Little Rock Integration Crisis that gained national attention in 1957. It also has various exhibits centered around the Civil Rights Movement. Apart from this, there...
An architectural wonder of Art Deco and Collegiate Gothic styles when it opened in 1927, “America's Most Beautiful High School” stood larger and more expensive than any high school ever constructed.
Opened in the era of Jim Crow laws and at a time when Supreme Court-mandated policy allowed educational facilities to be separate but equal, Little Rock Central High School admitted only white...