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Month: September 2019

Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools

Posted on: September 2, 2019 Last updated on: October 7, 2019 Written by: Acadia Roher

By Acadia Roher Resistance to school integration came in many forms, from outright mob violence to indirect tactics like housing discrimination that created segregated neighborhoods and thus segregated schools. In the decade leading up to Brown v. Board, Black communities…

Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

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This blog documents the progress of the Center’s project to digitize, describe, and create a website to share archival maps, documents, architectural drawings, and photographs related to urban renewal in Little Rock.

The project is made possible by a $50,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Recent Posts

Arthur Ashe, Winthrop Rockefeller, and the struggle for civil rights

By Acadia Roher I have been staring at, investigating, developing metadata, and writing about photographs in the Earl Saunders, Jr. photo collection for seven months now and still find myself startled by what I didn’t notice until the tenth or…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools

By Acadia Roher Resistance to school integration came in many forms, from outright mob violence to indirect tactics like housing discrimination that created segregated neighborhoods and thus segregated schools. In the decade leading up to Brown v. Board, Black communities…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Town and Country: Westward Sprawl in Little Rock (Part II)

By Andrew McClain Hi, everyone – I’m Andrew McClain, one of the graduate assistants at CAHC. I’ve written before about the residential growth patterns in Little Rock starting in the 1950s, but in this post, I’m talking about commercial development.…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Fleeing Downtown: White Western Suburbs

By Acadia Roher My walk over to the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture from the free parking area downtown always takes me under the thundering overpasses and exit ramps of I-30. Long before the debate over…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Town and Country: Westward Sprawl in Little Rock (Part I)

By Andrew McClain I’m Andrew, a Little Rock native, freelance journalist and archival assistant working on the Mapping Renewal project. During my first postgraduate career as a delivery driver, I saw far corners of Little Rock that I had never…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

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About

This blog documents the progress of the Center's project to digitize, describe, and create a website to share archival maps, documents, architectural drawings, and photographs related to urban renewal in Little Rock.

The project is made possible by a $50,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Recent Posts

Arthur Ashe, Winthrop Rockefeller, and the struggle for civil rights

By Acadia Roher I have been staring at, investigating, developing metadata, and writing about photographs in the Earl Saunders, Jr. photo collection for seven months now and still find myself startled by what I didn’t notice until the tenth or…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools

By Acadia Roher Resistance to school integration came in many forms, from outright mob violence to indirect tactics like housing discrimination that created segregated neighborhoods and thus segregated schools. In the decade leading up to Brown v. Board, Black communities…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Town and Country: Westward Sprawl in Little Rock (Part II)

By Andrew McClain Hi, everyone – I’m Andrew McClain, one of the graduate assistants at CAHC. I’ve written before about the residential growth patterns in Little Rock starting in the 1950s, but in this post, I’m talking about commercial development.…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Fleeing Downtown: White Western Suburbs

By Acadia Roher My walk over to the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture from the free parking area downtown always takes me under the thundering overpasses and exit ramps of I-30. Long before the debate over…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

Town and Country: Westward Sprawl in Little Rock (Part I)

By Andrew McClain I’m Andrew, a Little Rock native, freelance journalist and archival assistant working on the Mapping Renewal project. During my first postgraduate career as a delivery driver, I saw far corners of Little Rock that I had never…
Continue reading “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools”…

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