WRIGHTSVILLE, Ark. — Friday will mark the anniversary of a 1959 fire that claimed the lives of 21 boys, and now a community is coming together to remember that tragedy.
Members of Little Rock’s Church of the Living God met at the Haven of Rest cemetery Saturday to do just that.
That’s the site where a mass grave holds 14 of the 21 who died in the blaze, which took place at a correctional facility for juvenile Black males in Wrightsville, which is south of Little Rock…