Monday, May 21, 2007

Commemorative coin

Keen:
Fifty years ago, nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School in the first test of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against racial discrimination in public schools. Now the students are being honored on a commemorative silver coin.

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One side of the $1 (euro.74) coin depicts a group of students being escorted by a soldier. It features the phrase "Desegregation in Education" and contains nine stars. The other side depicts Central High as it looked in 1957.

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