An elegy for Carver Magnet Elementary
“Carver occupies a curious place in this city’s long narrative on public education. Historically, it served Black students as a neighborhood school in Little Rock’s East End, the area between downtown and the Little Rock airport. In the late ’80s, it was designated a magnet school in an effort to help the district achieve its…
Little Rock’s Sugar Hill: White flight, the Black middle class and a place called University Park
“University Park began as an idea, a stubborn redoubt against the notion that Black citizens should be corralled in the old eastern and southern zones of the city. When plans for a new subdivision were first announced by the Little Rock Housing Authority, local Black leaders denounced it as a tool of segregation. Then, John…
A historian’s history: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Levering Lewis recalls a Little Rock childhood
“Unbeknownst to both of us, I’d been chasing Lewis for years. He grew up on Ringo Street. I grew up 15 blocks away and 48 years later, on Izard Street. I, like Lewis, attended an HBCU and decided to study the humanities. I even went to grad school at a university a few blocks north…
Frederick McKindra 