Family's legacy continues
Posted: September 26, 2009 at 5:39 a.m.
The year was 1959, and Arkansas' national reputation was far from positive. The televised images at Little Rock Central High School from the fall of 1957 were still relatively fresh on the minds of many Americans. Little Rock's public high schools had been closed during the 1958-59 school year, an action that also received widespread national media coverage. Economic development had slowed to a crawl.
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Editorial, Pages 19 on 09/26/2009
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