Why Black Lives Matter–Robin White, NPS Superintendent Little Rock Central High School NHS

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Robin White, National Park Service Superintendent at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Photo Credit: National Park Service
Robin White, National Park Service Superintendent at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Photo Credit: National Park Service

 

When I stopped in to visit with Robin White, Superintendent at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, our conversation quickly led to tears. When I interviewed Ms. White a couple years ago, the focus was on the September 1957 events at Little Rock Central High, and lessons learned.

On this visit, we changed the focus. I said, let’s talk about lessons learned, but more importantly, lessons not learned in the intervening six decades. 

I had no idea that my entrée would open the floodgates of her soul. The subsequent conversation quickly had tears running down Ms. White’s cheeks, and mine too.

Click Here to listen to National Park Service Superintendent Robin White’s conversation on the NPR Podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer

Come along and join me in Ms. White’s National Park Service office in Little Rock, Arkansas as she shares her profound, powerful thoughts and feelings–that she confessed are way too often, regretfully, stuffed and suppressed.

 

 

 

Little Rock Nine student stoically entering Central High School. Photo Credit: National Park Service
Little Rock Nine student stoically entering Central High School. Photo Credit: National Park Service
Little Rock Nine 1957 Photo Credit: National Park Service
Little Rock Nine 1957
Photo Credit: National Park Service
Arkansas Democrat photo by Will Counts Sept. 1957. After being heckled by protestors Elizabeth Ekford waits for bus.
Arkansas Democrat photo by Will Counts Sept. 1957. After being heckled by protestors Elizabeth Ekford waits for bus.
Somethings remain the same
Photo Credit: National Park Service

 

Ms. Robin White, National Park Service Superintendent with fellow NPS rangers
Ms. Robin White, National Park Service Superintendent with fellow NPS rangers
Photo Credit: National Park Service

 

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