Little Rock Central High School

Little Rock, AR (Pulaski County); one of the most historically significant high school buildings in the United States — the site of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis of 1957, in which nine Black students (the "Little Rock Nine") enrolled in the previously all-white school under the protection of the 101st Airborne Division, ordered by President Eisenhower over the resistance of Governor Orval Faubus; a watershed moment in the American Civil Rights Movement and a National Historic Site; home of the Tigers; alma mater of Brooks Robinson (National Baseball Hall of Fame 1983; Baltimore Orioles third baseman; 16 consecutive Gold Gloves; universally regarded as the greatest defensive third baseman in the history of professional baseball)