Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — Attraction in Little Rock

Don't miss this place when you are in Arkansas! The visitor center is spacious and new, and the exhibition (a lot of texts, pictures, and videos) is very informative. When I visited, there was another exhibition about immigrants from Asia and their history. It was also very nice. You'll need at least 2.5 hours for all the exhibition and the tour.

The tour to the high school was also nice. It was very easy to schedule a tour. Took me 1 minute. Someone picked up the phone right away and the scheduling was done. (If you ever called any health care services, such as hospitals or primary care, you know what you'll be going through before actually talking to a real person, lol. I had been dealing with doctors and nurses right before calling to schedule a tour, so the speed and the easiness impressed me.)

My tour guide, a young NP service staff member whose name was Fabian (?), was extremely enthusiastic, polite, and friendly. I was very much impressed by his work (esp. considering that English was not his mother tongue -- but I had no trouble understanding him) and his eagerness to introduce the history to us.

I was speechless and thrilled when I was walking up the stairs outside the high school main building. An important chapter of history...

This museum highlights great work in the continuous struggle for freedom and equality in our shared American Experiment.

The exhibits can we enjoyed from anywhere to 30 minutes to up to 2 hours.

Also there are several book titles available in the gift shop as well as National Park passports, stamps, t-shirts, postcards, etc.

The staff are very friendly and helpful. They're also clean restrooms which are easily accessible by the physically disabled.

Just across corner to the visitor center is Central High School which is still a functioning for year senior high school. If you wish to go on a tour it is an necessary to call ahead and or go online to sign up for the tours which are only available twice a day.

Across the street you can see the fully restored filling station which offered the public telephone which the media used at the time.

I'm so grateful to the National Park Service for this facility which offers education and reflection on difficult and painful journey our fellow Americans have beared and the good we have all benefited from despite powerful forces that desire to keep us mired in hatred, divided and suffering.

See you on the road, 📸...

This is a very interesting and worthwhile site to visit. The visitor center is well organized and contains excellent exhibits and a great bookstore. I have taken the tour by the Ranger twice now and would like to provide some feedback, only in the spirit of helping to improve the tour: The Ranger manages the attendee group extremely well - he adjusts and adapts the locations he takes the group to, depending on the size and make-up of the group. The content of his speech can be more "meaty". While he imparts excellent information, he can also include more stories surrounding the events and he can definitely refrain from repeating himself. The speech can be delivered and tailored to the audience a bit more. The Ranger can address adult / educated members of the audience with information presented to them in a more interesting way. It seems that his speech is tailored to elementary school aged attendees. The timing of the tour is great - not too long, not too short. Thank you Little Rock, Arkansas, for the opportunity to visit this...