The Road from Hell Is Paved with Little Rocks – Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Unidentified male in uniform in front of a podium which says "Class of 1948"

Unidentified men, presumably standing in front of Central High School

Little Rock Central High School postcard

A seated female and a standing male in uniform, holding two stuffed tigers

"The Real Little Rock Story," Look Magazine, 1957 November 12

A cartoon entitled "Here We Go Again," featuring "Request of New School Board"

Daisy Bates and Members of the Little Rock Nine

Elizabeth Eckford and Lucius Christopher (L. C.) Bates on bus bench surrounded by protesters

Photograph of a Stadium with two football teams

Lucious Christopher (L. C.) Bates and Daisy Bates seated at a dinner table with the Little Rock Nine

The Road from
Hell
is Paved with
Little Rocks

About the Exhibit

This exhibit features digitized photographs, documents, and audiovisual material from collections at the Center of Arkansas History and Culture, CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, and the Central High School National Historic Site. Commentary from scholars around the country provides context to the materials, and a timeline, media gallery, and education section often further access and content. The exhibit is part of a Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

About the Center

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture, located in Little Rock's River Market District, offers a collection of historic materials related to Arkansas history. In addition to the Little Rock School Crisis Collection, the Elizabeth Huckaby Papers, the National Dunbar Historic Collections, and the Bishop Robert R Brown Letters, the Center's collections cover politicians, civil rights, the built environment, businesses, non-profit organizations, families, and so on.

Mission

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture collects, keeps safe, and makes available Arkansas history that connects people to each other and their shared experiences.

Learn More

The collections are available at the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art building and online at ARStudies.

401 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

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