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Little Rock
 
 
Capital of Arkansas and largest city in the state.  1
‡ In 1957, federal troops were sent into Little Rock to enforce the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown versus Board of Education against racial segregation in the public schools. Little Rock became a symbol of the South’s resistance to school integration.  2
 
 
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