Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Shares Stories Of African American Experience From Little Rock, Arkansas – Forbes

The heroism of the Little Rock Nine–nine teens who in 1957 placed their bodies in harm’s way integrating that city’s public schools in the face of a white mob of fellow students, racist police, the Ku Klux Klan, and state and local administrators stands, as a defining moment in American History, Civil Rights or otherwise. Theirs isn’t the only noteworthy story of Black history emanating from Arkansas.

The Elaine Race Massacre. Little Rock’s Ninth Street business district. Scipio Jones, Sue Cowen…