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Friday, September
19, 7 p.m.
Symposium on the media
coverage of the 1957-58 events. At Central High School auditorium, 14 and Park
streets. Sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter of the Society of
Professional Journalists.
(Contact Kitty Chism, President,
Arkansas Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, 501
758-2571)
Saturday, September
20, 10:00 a.m.
Central High Visitor
Center formal opening with
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Little Rock Mayor Jim
Dailey. 14th and Park Streets, across from Central High
School.
(Contact: Rett Tucker, President,
Central High Museum, Inc., 501 376-8005)
Beginning Saturday, Sept. 20, and continuing
through the week, the Visitor Center will host signing
ceremonies featuring the following.
- Saturday, Sept. 20, 10
a.m.-noon - Civil rights
leader, Daisy
Bates, signing copies of
her book, The Long Shadow of
Little Rock
- Sunday, Sept. 21, 2-4 p.m.-
Photographer and Central
High School graduate Will
Counts, signing copies of
his historic 1957 crisis photographs that were nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize.
- Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2-4 p.m -Pat
Murphy, son of Women's
Emergency Committee founder, Sara Murphy,
signing copies of their book, Breaking the Silence..
- Wednesday, Sept. 24, 10
a.m.-noon.- Little Rock
Nine member Melba Patillo
Beals, signing copies of
her book, Warriors Don't
Cry.
- Wed., Sept. 24, 2-4
p.m.- Renowned artist
George Hunt of Memphis, signing copies of his
commemorative painting of the Little Rock Nine
commissioned and created for the 40th anniversary.
- Friday, Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-noon
-Pat Murphy, son of Women's
Emergency Committee founder, Sara Murphy,
signing copies of their book, Breaking the Silence..
- Friday, Sept. 26, 2:00-4:00
p.m.- Biographer
Roy Reed, signing copies of his book,
Faubus, The Life and Times
of an American Prodigal.
- Saturday, Sept. 27, 10
a.m.-noon. Little Rock Nine
member Ernest
Green, who-in 1958-was the
first black to graduate from Central High, signing
videotape copies of the Disney-produced made-for-TV
movie, "The Ernest Green Story."
- Saturday, Sept. 27, 2-4 p.m.
Well-known Arkansas artist
Richard
DeSpain, signing copies of
his pen and ink drawings of Central High School.
Museum Visitor Center Hours:
Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m.
Sunday, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
NOTE: The Visitor Center includes a gift shop offering these works and
other educational items and souvenirs. The official 1997
Arkansas Holiday Ornament, as proclaimed by Governor Mike Huckabee, features Central High School and will also be
available.
Saturday, September
20, 11:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Open House at Central High
School, 14th and Park Streets.
Guided tours available.
(Contact: Vicki Saviers,
President, Central High PTSA, 501 664-8585; Rudolph Howard,
Principal, Central High School, 501 324-2300 or Fatima
McKindra, President, Central High Student Body,
501-375-3312)
Saturday, September
20, 3 p.m.
" Healing Racism " presented by Christian Science Lecturer
Earline Shoemake. Arkansas Repertory Theater, 6th and Main
Street
(Contact: Ada Ellis Limerick, Lecture
Chairperson, Christian Science Churches of Greater Little
Rock 501 663-0406
Saturday, September
20 through Saturday, September 27
"Central High 1957 and
1997: Photographs by Will Counts." Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer's
exhibition of his dramatic photographs of Central High
School then and now. MacArthur Park, 400 East Ninth
Street.
(Contact: Ruth Pasquine, Curator of
Art, Arkansas Arts Center, 501 396-0325)
Arkansas Arts Center
Hours:
Monday - Thursday, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, September
20 through Saturday, September 27
Exhibition: "The Finest
High School for Negro Boys and Girls: Dunbar High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas, 1929-1955" In the Rotunda, Arkansas State Capitol
Building, Capitol Avenue at Martin L. King Jr. Drive. This
exhibit was created by the National Dunbar History Project,
a collaboration of the National Dunbar Alumni Association of
Little Rock, Inc. and the University of Arkansas at Little
Rock.
Exhibit hours at the Capitol:
Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8
a.m.-6 p.m.
(Contact: Dr. Erma Glasco Davis,
National President, National Dunbar Alumni Association, 501
922-4841, or Dr. Johanna Miller Lewis, Associate Professor
of Public History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
501 569-3216).
Exhibit Hours:
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Weekend of Sunday,
September 21
Reconciliation
Prayer. All Little Rock
churches and synagogues will be asked to pray for
reconciliation within our city.
(Contact: Little Rock Central High
40th Anniversary commission members Rev. Chris Keller, 501
821- 5583 or Rev. Hezekiah Stewart, 501 378-0176)
Tuesday, September
23, 11:30 a.m.
Downtown Little Rock
Rotary Club, Doubletree Hotel,
Markham at Spring Streets. Little Rock Rotary Club regular
weekly meeting. Speaker: Little Rock Nine member
Ernest Green of Washington, D.C.
(Contact: Mark Saviers, Program
Chairman, Little Rock Rotary Club, 501 663- 3325)
Wednesday,
September 24, 11 a.m.
Interfaith Community
Service sponsored by the
Arkansas Interfaith Conference and the Center City
Ministerial Alliance.
(Contact: Mimi Dortch, director,
Arkansas Interfaith Conference, 501 961-1555)
Wednesday,
September 24, 12 noon
West Little Rock Rotary
Club, St. Vincent Infirmary
Medical Center, Markham Street at University Avenue. West
Little Rock Rotary Club regular weekly meeting. Speaker is
Carlotta Walls Lanier of Denver, one of the Little Rock
Nine.
(Contact: Brad Cazort Program
Chairman, West Little Rock Rotary Club, 501 375-9947)
Wednesday,
September 24, 2 p.m.
News
conference with Little Rock
Nine. Excelsior Hotel, Markham at Louisiana Streets.
NOTE: News media only admitted
with credentials. Sorry, not open to the public.
(Contact: Alma Williams, Executive
Coordinator, Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary
Commission, 501 312-1190)
Thursday, September 25, 10 a.m.
President
Bill Clinton, Governor Mike
Huckabee, Mayor Jim Dailey and the Little Rock
Nine in a special ceremony on
the 40th anniversary of the court-ordered entrance of the
students into Central under the protection of federal
troops. On the front steps of Central High School, 14th and
Park streets.
(Contact: Rett Tucker, Co-Chair,
Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary Commission, 501
376-8005; Gall Reede-Jones, Co-Chair, Little Rock Central
High 40th Anniversary Commission, 501 225-9755; Alma
Williams, Executive Coordinator, Little Rock Central High
40th Anniversary Commission, 501 312- 1190; Central High
Principal Rudolph Howard, 501 324-2300 or Suellen Vann,
Director of Communications for the Little Rock School
District, 501 324-2020)
Thursday, September
25, 5:30 a.m.
Recreation of Freedom
Riders. 200 University of Arkansas students will reenact the
Freedom Riders bus rides as they travel from Old Main at the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to Little Rock in
buses provided by Greyhound Bus Lines. They will arrive in
time to attend the 10a.m. event at Central High
School.
(Contact: Warwick Sabin, President, UA
Associated Student Government, 501 575-5206, or Kevin
Dedner, President UA Black Students Association, 501
575-3346)
Thursday, September
25, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Cancellation of special
Central High envelopes by the United States Postal
Service. Central High Museum
Visitor Center, 14th and Park streets. Distinctive cachets
features an etching of Central High School are available for
sale at the Visitor Center, where they will be hand-stamped
with a commemorative cancellation.
(Contact: Mike Binko, U.S. Postal
Service 501 375-5155)
Thursday, September
25, 5:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
Reception honoring the
Little Rock Nine and their parents and Daisy
Bates. Excelsior Hotel,
Markham at Louisiana streets. Open to the public. Tickets
$50.00 available at the door.
(Contact: Rett Tucker, 501 376-8005;
Gall Reede Jones, 501 227-9755 or Alma Williams, 501
312-1190)
Friday, September
26, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, September 27, 8:30 a.m.-4
p.m.
History symposium,
"Remembrance and Reconciliation: Understanding the Little
Rock Crisis of 1957."
Sponsored by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with
assistance from the George W. Donaghey Foundation. Features
speakers from Cambridge, Morehouse, Henderson State, Scripps
College, Emory, Vanderbilt, University of Wales,
Northwestern, UALR and the universities of Texas,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Arkansas and
Alabama, among others. Friday sessions at UALR Stella Boyle
Smith Concert Hall, 28th and South University, and Saturday
sessions at Central High School Cafeteria, 14th and Park.
Registration is $30. Meals extra.
(Contact: Dr. C. Fred Williams,
Director of Center for Arkansas Studies, University of
Arkansas at Little Rock; phone 501 569-8782, or e-mail
CFWilliams@UALR.edu)
Friday, September
26, 5 p.m.-9 p.m., and Saturday, September 27, 9 a.m. to
noon.
Civil rights
conference, "Education and the Construction of an Inclusive
United States," sponsored by
the National Conference of Christians and Jews. To be
uplinked live to 30 cities across the United States. Dinner
event Friday, September 26, and conference Saturday,
September 27, at Central High School auditorium. 14th and
Park.
(Contact: Ron Lanoue, Executive
Director, Arkansas Region, NCCJ, 501 372- 5129)
Friday, September
26, 7:30 p.m.
High School
Football. Central High Tigers
to clobber cross-town arch-rival Hall High School Warriors
in the " Battle for the Bell." Hall High School opened
for the first time in 1957 but was not scheduled to have any
black students as was Central that year. The two schools did
not play football until the fall of 1958...when both of
them, along with the two other Little Rock high schools,
were closed under order of Governor Faubus and the state
legislature. Central won that first match, 7-0. This one is
again at Quigley Stadium, just behind Central High, at 16th
and Jones.
Saturday, September
27, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Central High School
70th Birthday Party. A
birthday party celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the
building called, "America's Most Beautiful High School" when
it opened in 1927. All former students are invited. Sign the
birthday books for presentation to the school. Cake in the
form of the school. Refreshments. To be held where the old
fish pond was located in front of Central High.
(Contact: Craig Rains, Central High
40th Anniversary Commission, 501 372-3313)
Saturday, September
27, 5:30 p.m.
"Remembering the '57
Crisis: A People's Celebration." Philander Smith College, 812 West 13th
Street.
(Contact: Leta Anthony, 501 324-3423,
or Linda Gillam, 501 370-5267)
Monday,
September 29, 4-6 p.m.
" The Role of the Judiciary in the
Central High Crisis.
"
Richard Arnold, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Eighth Circuit, and other judges and attorneys will
discuss this topic. Joining Judge Arnold will be U.S.
District Judge George Howard, Little Rock attorney Richard
C. Butler, and Philip Anderson, President-elect of the
American Bar Assn. UALR School of Law, 1201 McAlmont Street,
Little Rock.
(Contact: Julie Baldridge Speed, UALR
School of Law, 501 324-9924)
Weekend of July
10-12, 1998
40th Reunion of the class of
1958. The senior class that
graduated during the desegregation crisis of 1957-58 unites
to talk about school days and today. The class meets every
five years. Details to be released in November. DoubleTree
Hotel, Markham and Broadway in Little Rock.
(Contact: Jim and Pat (Daunis)
Wallace, 3713 Sevier Drive, North Little Rock, AR 72116,
phone 501 753-8781,
or Craig Rains at crains@aristotle.net)
Times,
dates and events are subject to change.
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