A Little Rock Central High School student hangs a medal around the neck of one of the bronze statues of the Little Rock Nine, part of a twentieth anniversary celebration of the memorial on Aug. 29, 2025. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
Arkansas elected officials and high school students commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the Little Rock Nine monument on the state Capitol grounds Friday.
The memorial honors nine Black students who faced violence and hatred when they attempted to integrate Little Rock public schools in 1957…