U.S. Coin to Commemorate Little Rock Desegregation

President Bush has signed a measure that authorizes the minting of a silver dollar to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. In September 1957, the formerly all-white school was integrated by nine African-American students, a major test for the implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , which struck...

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