Little Rock

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Arkansas, in the central part, on the Arkansas River.

Little Rock

noun

1. a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River: state capital. Pop: 184 053 (2003 est)

Little Rock

1. Capital of Arkansas and largest city in the state.

In 1957, federal troops were sent into Little Rock to enforce the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown versus Board of Education against racial segregation in the public schools. Little Rock became a symbol (see also symbol) of the South's resistance to school integration.

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This urban domestication starts with trash, the study's co-author, Raffaela Lesch of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, told Scientific American.

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Though the entire country was witnessing the military enforcing integration in Little Rock, state and local authorities in Virginia pushed back nevertheless.

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And late in the quarter, there was a fire at Hormel’s Little Rock peanut butter facility.

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The Insurrection Act was Abraham Lincoln’s sword against secessionists and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s shield around the Little Rock Nine, the young Black students who were the first to desegregate schools in Arkansas.

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In the meantime, the DNC’s executive committee is set to gather in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday for its first meeting since December.

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