Segregation & public facilities
Little Rock closes every high school
Closed 8 a.m., 15 September 1958; reopened 12 August 1959The Little Rock School District's four high schools, AR
A year after the Little Rock Nine, the governor shut all four of the city's high schools for the whole of 1958-59 rather than let desegregation continue. 3,665 students, Black and white, lost the year.
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