Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver recounts path to desegregating Forest Heights Junior High School
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.
糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor to share story of desegregating a Little Rock school during book launch
Join Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, an associate professor of social work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, for the launch of her highly anticipated novel, 鈥淭he First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock鈥檚 Public Junior High Schools.鈥�
