THE GOVERNMENT NEWS DESKPERMANENT NPS STORY ARCHIVE
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will host a series of programs September 17–25 commemorating the 69th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine and exploring themes of constitutional rights, citizenship, civic engagement, and the continuing pursuit of equality.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will present “Something in the Soil,” a free documentary-style, one-woman performance about the life and work of civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates, featuring actress Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, on Wednesday, August 26, at 6 p.m. at First Missionary Baptist Church.
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Family Day on Little Rock Nine Way will feature hands-on activities for children and families, student-led programs, community resource booths, and food trucks. The free event is open to the public and will also include performances by local poets, live music, a DJ, and a variety of food truck vendors.
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Commemoration honors the courage of nine Black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.
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The free, public event will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the grounds of Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and Bullock Temple CME Church. The day will feature youth activities, performances by local artists, 20-minute interpretive tours, a tree planting, and a time capsule burial.
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Beginning Tuesday, June 3, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will transition to its summer operating schedule.
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First Tuesdays Poetry Night will honor the late Nikki Giovanni on January 7, 2025.
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Author and historian Taylor Branch will speak as part of the NPS Speaker Series on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. CST in Little Rock. The event, a partner program hosted at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, will highlight Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lasting impact on American society.
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Dr. Johnson-Dias will inspire attendees with insights on raising purposeful and resilient children while energizing the parental role in community engagement.
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Phyllis Brown is a lifelong advocate for equality and justice. Educated in Little Rock’s segregated public schools, she went on to earn a B.S. in Mass Communication from Southern Illinois University. A former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Brown has dedicated her life to social activism, education, and the arts, using her voice to speak truth to power. Phyllis’s sister, Minnijean Brown Trickey, is one of the Little Rock Nine.
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The program will examine the catalysts behind the Elaine Massacre of 1919, providing detailed accounts of the events and exploring how and why knowledge of the massacre was suppressed. It will also highlight primary sources to educate attendees about the racialized violence of the Red Summer, offering a forum to discuss the massacre’s lasting impact on our national history.
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Wair, a courageous member of the historic Little Rock Nine, played a pivotal role in desegregating Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Official NPS sourceDr. Sybil Jordan Hampton, lifelong educator, social justice foot soldier, and the first three-year African American graduate of Little Rock Central High School in 1962, will present "A Conversation on Desegregation at Central High School after the Crisis" on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
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Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Medal-winner, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, will join Superintendent Robin White of Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site for a special evening as part of the 67th anniversary events commemorating the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.
Official NPS sourceBy embracing diverse voices, the program aims to expand perspectives and create opportunities for exploration and growth.
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The conversation will explore the need to confront difficult history, ensure inclusive narratives, engage communities in preservation, and raise public awareness of the lives and contributions of enslaved people.
Official NPS sourceLittle Rock Central High School National Historic Site, in partnership with Say it Loud! Readers and Writers, invites the public to participate in the Freedom and Heritage Literacy Series. This event celebrates the transformative power of education across diverse genres, emphasizing the importance of youth empowerment and creative expression.
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The NPS Speaker Series is an inspiring initiative aimed at fostering awareness and dialogue on critical issues and historical moments.
Official NPS sourceCentral High School NHS is partnering with Say It Loud! Readers and Writers for Children's Book Week 2024, an event to promote and encourage young people to read, write, and use their voice and communication skills to improve their lives and the communities where they reside.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will host a Civil Rights Educator Institute (CREI) from Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, 2024. The CREI is open to educators; requests to participate in this program will be accepted until all openings are filled. Educators who attend the full CREI will receive professional development credit.
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Central High School NHS is partnering with Say It Loud! Readers and Writers and author Brentom Jackson for Books and Literary Art Can Save Boys: Intentionality is Imperative, a free public literary event to promote the importance of boys participating in literary arts projects and programs.
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Little Rock Central High School NHS and the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College (UA-PTC) will present a panel discussion on “Equity in Education” on Wednesday, January 24, 2024; the event also will commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Panelists include Dr. Terrence Roberts, clinical psychologist and member of the Little Rock Nine; Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton, higher education administrator and the first African American three-year graduate at Little Rock Central High School; and Brenda Bradley, UA-PTC Instructor of History.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, in partnership with Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and Jefferson National Parks Association, announces a free screening of the film “Till” on Thursday, November 16 at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (501 W. Ninth Street in Little Rock). The screening will begin in the ballroom at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center at 6:00 p.m.; doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Official NPS sourceCentral High School NHS is partnering with Say It Loud! Readers and Writers for Children's Book Week 2023, an event to promote and encourage young people to read, write, and use their voice and communication skills to improve their lives and the communities where they reside.
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The National Park Service, Oxford American, and the City of Little Rock are excited to announce a free concert featuring the No Tears Project ensemble on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. at Ron Robinson Theater (100 River Market Avenue) in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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This free program on Saturday, August 26 will discuss challenges, solutions and advocacy in current censorship climate. Panelists on the program include Nate Coulter, executive director of the Central Arkansas Library System; David Dennis Jr., journalist and co-author of The Movement Made Us; Tiffeni Fontno, director of the Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University; and Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association.
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The multi-day residency triangulates the American Civil Rights Movement legacies of Memphis; Jackson, Mississippi; and Little Rock, Arkansas. Featured events will include concerts with the world premiere of new music by Memphis native Robert “Bobby LaVell” Garner, as well as conversations with civil rights heroes, Dwania Kyles, Elizabeth Eckford, and Reena Evers-Everette.
Official NPS sourceBeginning Tuesday, April 11, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will increase public access inside the site’s visitor center and on scheduled ranger-led programming.
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Little Rock Central High School NHS welcomes author Tim Spofford for a public presentation on the life and legacy of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark, the Harlem psychologists who developed the legendary doll test that played a key role in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the US Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools in America. The free event will be held in the National Historic Site visitor center on Wednesday, March 22 at 1:00 p.m. CDT.
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Join the Oxford American, Gateway Arch National Park, and Jazz St. Louis for No Tears Project–St. Louis: a multi-day residency of free events that will use music and conversation to engage communities in civil rights education and storytelling.
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During World War II, the federal government forcibly removed people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast and imprisoned them in American concentration camps. A little-known part of their story is that the War Relocation Authority (WRA) expected them to grow food to feed themselves, contribute to the war effort, and make barren lands flourish under the most difficult of circumstances. How did the incarcerees grapple with these demands?
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UA - Pulaski Tech to host panel discussion to include Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine, and other distinguished participants.
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Our site is recruiting for one CVA to serve a 50-week term here under the guidance and mentorship of the Service’s Interpretation, Education and Volunteers Directorate.
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Join the Jazz Ambassadors in Little Rock, Arkansas to hear the military's finest practitioners of jazz and swing. The Army's official touring big band, this 19-member jazz ensemble has received widespread acclaim at home and abroad, earning the Jazz Ambassadors the title, "America's Big Band."
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Little Rock Central High School NHS and local students to partner with STRONGER THAN, a special emphasis campaign that recognizes and celebrates the strength, courage, and resilience of women across diverse dimensions.
Official NPS sourceThe Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center will temporarily change days of operations on Sunday, January 30, 2022.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will host an online Civil Rights Educator Institute (CREI) from Tuesday, July 12 through Thursday, July 14, 2022. This free professional development course is open to educators, community organizers and cultural activists; requests to participate in this virtual program will be accepted through March 1, 2022 or until all openings are filled.
Official NPS sourceLittle Rock, Arkansas – Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (NHS) is adjusting public access to the visitor center and park programming on Sundays in January 2022.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is increasing public access to the visitor center and park programming beginning Tuesday, October 12, 2021.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site will commemorate the 64th anniversary of Central High School’s desegregation by the Little Rock Nine with virtual programs on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25, 2021.
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As a result of the elevated risks related to the COVID-19 virus, the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site visitor center will temporarily close to the public beginning Saturday, August 7, 2021.
Official NPS sourceLittle Rock Central High School NHS is increasing public access to the visitor center and on park programming beginning June 14, 2021.
Official NPS sourceNational Park Service announces the 2021 virtual Civil Rights Educator Institute, a professional development opportunity for educators, community workers, and cultural activists.
Official NPS sourceLittle Rock Central High School NHS announces film screenings during Black History Month; program will feature a conversation with Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine
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Little Rock Central High School NHS (CHSC) will host online programs on September 23, 24 and 25, 2020 on the theme "Conversations with America's Youth: A Civil Rights Institute Mentoring Initiative" as part of the 63rd commemoration of Central High School’s desegregation by the Little Rock Nine.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site presents a free online program featuring Harriet Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson and Tina Martin Wyatt, the great-great-great-grandniece of Tubman. This special conversation will be broadcast on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.; free tickets can be obtained via Eventbrite (search “Harriet (Descendants Talk Mini-Festival)”).
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In following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Little Rock Central High School NHS is increasing phased access to include daily streetscape tours of no more than 10 visitors beginning Monday, June 22, 2020.
Official NPS sourceBeginning June 15, 2020, Little Rock Central High School NHS will begin Phase I access to the National Historic Site Visitor Center with limited occupancy and services.
Official NPS sourceDue to an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Arkansas, Little Rock Central High School NHS will delay Phase I access originally scheduled to begin on Monday, June 8.
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