Applications Due for NARA’s Voluntary Internship Program

Students and recent graduates, have you applied for the National Archives' Voluntary Internship Program yet? Explore opportunities and submit your applications for the fall 2025 semester by tomorrow, Friday, July 18, 2025. Opportunities are available at facilities across the country.

Picture This!

Stop by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, AR, tomorrow, Friday, July 18, 2025, at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. CT, for "Picture This!" our next "Ask an Archivist, Converse with a Curator" event. In celebration of our new exhibition, "Portraits from a Presidency," we will showcase gifts presented to the Clinton Family during his administration. 

The "Ask an Archivist and Converse with a Curator" program takes place on the third Friday of every month at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. While admission to the library is required, the program itself is free of charge.

Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School

In 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were "inherently unequal". The next year in Brown II, the high court found that segregation in public schools must end "with all deliberate speed." 

In response to these rulings, in 1957, the Little Rock school board unanimously voted in favor of a plan to integrate the Little Rock schools beginning with the high school. However, the Arkansas governor had other plans and sent the National Guard to prevent entry of the African-American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, into Little Rock Central High School. 

Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School, an online exhibit from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, tells the full story of this crucial moment in the struggle for civil rights in America. Check it out today!

Executive Order 10730, which was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 23, 1957, addressed the Little Rock Crisis. NAID: 17366749