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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026

On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

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