Catch Up with Little Rock, Arkansas

We did manage to take in some sights during our four days in Little Rock. We only stayed the four days instead of ten because the Little Rock Air Force Base does not take reservations and in the back lot you do not have sewer and only 30 amp rather than the 50 amp we need to run both air conditioners. With the weather being warm we decided to move on the Memphis Tennessee.


Here is a picture of downtown Memphis.

This is the capitol building. Below it is the Governor's Mansion. They both look like elegant homes to us.

The Liitle Rock Central High School was the site of the forced school desegregation dur the American Civil Rights Movement. It was the morning of September 23, 1957, when nine Afican-American high school students faced an angry mob of over 1,000 protesting integration in front of Central High School. The next day President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 1,200 man 326th Airbone Battle Group of the U. S. Army from Campbell Kentuck to escort the nine students into the school.

The event, watched by the nation and the world, was the site of the first important test for the implementaiton of the U. S. Supreme Court's history Brown v. Board of Eduction decision of 1954.

The school also made legal history in 1968 when Central High School biology teach Susan Epperson agreed to be the plaintiff in a case challenging an Arkansas law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution by nation selection in the public schools. The U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Epperson v. Arkansas held that states could not require that "teaching and learning must be tailered to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma" i.e. that the teaching of evolution in schools could not be forbidden on religious grounds.

(Excerpted from Wikipedia.org)

Do you recognize this home? Yes, it is the house front used in the series, Designing Women. It is currently just a private home.

Along with the "Designing Women" home and numerous others, Little Rock has a tour of some of the old, beautiful homes in Little Rock. Here are a few:

You have got to image my surprise when this woman got out of here SUV. She looked almost exactly like my sister, Kay. I asked if I could take a picture...otherwise you would not believe it.