1 Dollar (Little Rock Central High School Desegregation) obverse1 Dollar (Little Rock Central High School Desegregation) reverse
United States

1 Dollar (Little Rock Central High School Desegregation)

United States · Silver

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The story

The coin that shows nine pairs of feet walking into history

In 1957, it took the 101st Airborne Division to walk nine Black teenagers into a public high school in Arkansas. Fifty years later, the United States put that walk on a silver dollar — and chose to show it from the ground up, at the level of their feet.

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