“This is your new school.”
These were the words that echoed off the eardrums of a 12-year-old LaVerne Bell-Tolliver in the summer of 1961, while sitting in the backseat of her parents’ station wagon as they drove past Forest Heights Junior High School, one of five all-white junior high schools in Little Rock.
Join Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, an associate professor of social work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, for the launch of her highly anticipated novel, “The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Junior High Schools.” Continue reading “UA Little Rock professor to share story of desegregating a Little Rock school during book launch”