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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host two events commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.

After the 1957 desegregation of Central High School, a coalition of blacks and whites banned together to elect school board members who would comply with federal court orders and work to completely desegregate schools in Arkansas鈥� capital. To fulfill these requests, the school board hired a team of researchers from the University of Oregon to … History professor to discuss 1967 Little Rock School Board crisis

鈥淭his is your new school.鈥� These were the words that echoed off the eardrums of a 12-year-old LaVerne Bell-Tolliver in the summer of 1961, while sitting in the backseat of her parents鈥� station wagon as they drove past Forest Heights Junior High School, one of five all-white junior high schools in Little Rock.

Dr. John Kirk, director of the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will present a lecture on the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock鈥檚 Central High School as part of the Evenings with History series.聽

Dr. James Ross, history professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will hold a talk on 1960s-era desegregation in Little Rock schools.聽