In Little Rock, Clinton Says Integration Work Isn't Done
Forty years ago last week, nine black teenagers walked through the doors of Little Rock, Ark.'s Central High School for the first time. To ensure their protection, federal troops with bayonets escorted the youngsters through angry mobs.
Today, black students walk through the same doors and share the space with their white peers every school day without the tension and threats of 1957.
But that doesn't mean the fight for integration of Central High and the rest of the nation's schools is over, President Clinton told students there last Thursday in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the first day of school for the students known as...
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