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The nine students greeting New York mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in 1958. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by ...
Hazel Bryan. ( 1942-01-31) January 31, 1942 (age 82) Spouse. Antoine Massery. Hazel Bryan Massery (born January 31, 1942 [1]) is an American former anti-integration activist who was a student at Little Rock Central High School during the Civil Rights Movement. [2] She was depicted in an iconic photograph taken by photojournalist Will Counts in ...
Killing of Ebby Steppach. / 34.8099; -92.5043. Ebby Jane Steppach (March 31, 1997 – October 25, 2015) [2] was an American woman who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Little Rock, Arkansas. [3] Days before her disappearance, she had accused four men of gang-raping her at a party she had attended.
1831 – Little Rock is incorporated as a city. Dr. Matthew Cunningham is elected the first mayor of Little Rock. His descendants reside in the city as of 2022. 1833 – Arkansas State House (now Old State House Museum) is built. Completed in 1842, it serves as the State capitol until 1911.
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of ...
Little Rock officials deployed 115 city workers to clear debris from roadways, and all routes were cleared for traffic by the afternoon of April 1. Shortly after the tornado struck, a mass casualty event was declared for the area, with the initial casualty count being over 600 injuries, though this figure was later found to be untrue.
134 (136 initially) American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. Nine of the 145 people aboard were immediately ...
2023 Little Rock tornado. On March 31, 2023, a large and devastating tornado affected Little Rock, Arkansas as part of a larger tornado outbreak. The tornado reached high-end EF3 status and lasted for 40 minutes. Despite causing over 50,000 power outages and 54 injuries, there was only one fatality.