Little Rock, Arkansas Timeline of Events

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

Timeline of Events

1957

9.24.1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

9.25.1957

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

2004

11.18.2004

The Clinton Presidential Center is opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs and 80 million documents.