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Little Rock Arkansas United States USA 1957 stock footage and images

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Man speaks about the racial desegregation order of 1957 at Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

School board member in LIttle Rock Arkansas responds to reporter's questions about racial segregation, civil rights, and the strife that occurred in 1957 surrounding the "Little Rock Nine" and integration of Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock,Arkansas. He speaks on the effects of the racial segregation and attendant discord and strife on industrial and commercial development of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Date: 1963
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029489
African American students are escorted to car from newly integrated school by U.S. soldiers under 'Operation Arkansas' in Little Rock

"Little Rock Nine" African American students are escorted from Little Rock Central High School by armed United States Army 101st Airborne soldiers, and enter a Country Sedan station wagon under 'Operation Arkansas' in Little Rock. Soldiers board a jeep and follow the station wagon. Soldiers march and drill with guns in front of the school.

Date: 1957, October 7
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024016
Protests against admission of black students at Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas; later work and teaching by Ernest Green.

Shows crowd gathered outside the Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, in 1957, protesting admission of African American students. Shows "Little Rock Nine" in station wagon being escorted to the school by armed Federal troops. Ernie Green reflects on the experience of the troop escort. Views of Ernest Greene at Michigan State University in a library and Professor Greene teaching in a classroom. Green is seen on a building site working to encourage black apprenticeships in the building trades. Ernest Green seated in an office.

Date: 1969
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029513
Soldiers escort African American students to Central High School as Edwin Walker, S I Clinger and Ernest B Bowden stand in Little Rock Arkansas.

Major General Edwin Walker; Major General Sherman I Clinger, State Adjutant General for State of Arkansas and Lieutenant Colonel Ernest B Bowden, Commander of the 1st Battalion 153rd Infantry Regiment, Arkansas National Guard, stand and chat in front of the Central High School. United States Army Soldiers escort African American students up to the steps of Central High School. Other students line up along the stairs and watch.

Date: 1957, September 29
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024023
Minnijean Brown, one of the "Little Rock Nine," at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

Glimpse of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with U.S. Army troops posted to protect nine African American students enrolling at the school. Scene shifts to after graduation, when Minnijean Brown, one of the nine, strolls the campus of Southern Illinois University, and speaks of wanting to be a writer. She is seen in the office of a newspaper, where she works as a part time reporter, after school. Brown walks on the college campus with Professor Simon. she bicycles and picnics with friends.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024011
Shows street fights between groups in favor of and opposed to racial integration in schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Shows street fights between groups demonstrating for and protesting against racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, during Civil Rights movement. Several cameramen and photographers at the scene. White and African American citizens fighting. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division arrive to restore order and escort trouble making demonstrators away from the scene. Follows court orders in United States for desegregation of schools.

Date: 1957
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029483