This month Central High School will remember the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine-the nine African American students who were to integrate the schools there. This year a new visitor center will open adjacent to the school. A two day commemoration will be filled with speeches, a fund raiser and an exhibition of the Emancipation Proclamation.
My dad was actually traveling through the area during this time when he was a young boy. He remembers seeing the state troopers and his dad telling him why they were there. Later, my dad's high school was the first in his area to integrate black students.
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