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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-290
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL
HISTORIC SITE BOUNDARY MODIFICATION ACT
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2611]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2611) to modify the boundary of the Little Rock Central
High School National Historic Site, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2611 is to modify the boundary of the Little
Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In a key event of the American Civil Rights movement, nine
black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School
in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, testing the landmark
1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka (347 U.S. 483) that declared segregation in public schools
unconstitutional. The admission of the Little Rock Nine, as they
came to be known, drew national and international attention, and
was the first important test of our Nation's resolve to enforce black
civil rights in the face of significant public defiance.
In recognition of the importance of Little Rock Central High
School in the history of the United States, the site was designated
by the Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark
in 1982, and was later designated as a national historic site in
1998 by Public Law 105-356.
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