1960: Students from Philander
Smith College integrated the
lunch counter at Woolworth in
downtown Little Rock.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/segregation-
and-desegregation-3079
http://www.mosaictemplarsp
reservation.org/history_ninth
/littlerocknexus.asp
The Afro hair style
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One great African American leader
Fallen great leader,Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/mourning-
death-martin-luther-king-j
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1959: 21 Black boys burned to death at the Negro Boys’
Industrial School in Little Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HiOY5jYfkc
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