You shouldn’t pass through Little Rock without visiting the location of a turning point in the American Civil Rights Movement. Little Rock Central High School was the site of a tense standoff during forced segregation in 1957. It’s incredible to think that on these steps, more than 50 years ago, nine black students faced an angry mob of white folks, just for the right to attend school here. The students were escorted in by Army soldiers, under orders from President Dwight Eisenhower — who also federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard, so that Arkansas’ governor couldn’t use them against the […]