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#WDEFWeather #News12Weather - Looking back towards #LittleRockAR as the next #winterstorm moves in.

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A couple from tonight

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A rally at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock to protest the integration of the Little Rock High School. The photo was taken on August 20, 1959 -- nearly two years after the first nine black students had been enrolled --  by John T. Bledsoe, a staff photographer from U.S. News and World Report.  After failing to get integration delayed until January,1961, the Little Rock School Board closed all public schools for the year beginning in 1958. The whites blamed the blacks for the school closures, and hate crimes against blacks escalated during that year. In May ,1959, some of the segregationist school board members were replaced with more moderate members, and the still integrated schools began the 1959-60 school year on August 12, a few weeks earlier than usual.

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There’s plenty to do in the Little Rock area year-round. In addition to the indoor and outdoor activities you can enjoy in any season, there are a few that are particularly well-suited for winter exploration. Click on our blog to read about these amazing winter activities from Little Rock, AR!

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Today we remember the courage of the Little Rock Nine. ✊🏽

On this day in 1957, nine Black students became symbols of the fight to desegregate U.S. public schools after an angry mob prevented them from entering Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The Little Rock Nine faced threats, violence, and unimaginable adversity, yet they stood firm in the pursuit of equality.  

We are inspired by their bravery and strength, and honor them today: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo.

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Speak Now World Tour

October 4, 2011 - Little Rock, Arkansas

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Black Student Fighting Back 1958

Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnny and his sister, Mary (standing behind him), were en route to their segregated school when the two whites in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk.

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Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults, has died at age 83. Mothershed Wair died Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock after having complications from multiple sclerosis, her sister, Grace Davis, confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press. The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine. For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the Black students from enrolling in Central High, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated classrooms were unconstitutional. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent members of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into school on Sept. 25, 1957. Davis said she was enrolled at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville when her sister and the other students — Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls — integrated Central High School.

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Lamar Porter Athletic Field, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

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Tonight

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Située à Little Rock, Arkansas, cette maison capsule temporelle a été construite en 1966. - source MCM Daily.

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‘Get off our backs and let us live’

Miss Major is still fighting for trans rights after 50 years of resistance

her latest project – a sanctuary for trans and gender-nonconforming people that she built on the property where she lives in the southern conservative state. She first called it House of GG, after her initials, but recently renamed it Tilifi, which stands for Telling It Like It Fuckin’ Is, something Miss Major is exceptionally good at doing. Next door to her house, connected by a path she painted bright yellow, is the Oasis, a guest home where she invites trans leaders and loved ones to stay, with a singular goal: to rest and relax. “I’ve gotta make joy here, because it doesn’t exist in the normal world,” says Miss Major … Visibility, she says, means the deaths of her people are now counted, but it doesn’t mean their lives are being saved and protected: “We got gay marriage, yay! But that doesn’t affect transgender people. The girls are being murdered more and more each year.” She rolls her eyes at the order of the LGBTQ+ acronym: “The T should be first. We’re integral.” … “They want us to live in the 1950s. No. Get off our fucking backs and let us live. They try to push us back – well, that means we gotta put the gloves on and fight again,” she says. “We have to get rid of the people in charge – the 70- and 80-year-olds who hold us down, who want to try to suppress us. You get rid of them, and we can build up, and move forward. People have to organize and get it together, and we also must vote.” She adds: “I know the world I would like to live in. It’s in my head, but I try my best to live it now.”

by Sam Levin/The Guardian, June 22, 2023 [📷 Miss Major in Little Rock. Whitten Sabbatini]

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