Central High News

theGrio Reflects: What it took to integrate Central High School

By theGrio

10:50 AM on 07/13/2009

In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school desegregation. Crowds greeted nine black students, six girls and three boys, to school in September with chants of, "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate!" These students became...