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. ... 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... read more
