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Hace 4 días · Through the years, Lassis Inn was known for more than its fish. In the years leading up to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Daisy Bates and other civil rights leaders held frequent meetings at the restaurant.
Hace 4 días · As 1957 drew to a close, the world had become a place where machines were learning to think, rocks were turning into computers, and a small metal ball circling the Earth could change the course of history. And the year 1958 was just around the corner.
Hace 2 días · Statues of the Little Rock Nine, the first Black students to enter Little Rock’s segregated Central High School in 1957, stand outside the Arkansas Capitol building. A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands outside Georgia’s Capitol.
Hace 3 días · Statues of the Little Rock Nine, the first Black students to enter Little Rock's segregated Central High School in 1957, stand outside the Arkansas Capitol building.
Hace 9 horas · Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Arkansas, September 1957. As Southern leaders continued to resist desegregation, Eisenhower sought to answer calls for stronger federal action by introducing a civil rights bill.
Hace 2 días · Statues of the Little Rock Nine, the first Black students to enter Little Rock's segregated Central High School in 1957, stand outside the Arkansas Capitol building. A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands outside Georgia's Capitol.
Hace 2 días · White Rock secedes from Surrey, British Columbia, following a referendum. April 17 – Suspected English serial killer John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at the Old Bailey. April 24–25 – The 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occur, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
