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Outfit worn by Carlotta Walls to Little Rock Central High School
Sportswear by Sheinberg
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the nine students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957. She wore this matching skirt and blouse to the first day of school, which was also the first day she was turned away.
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- shirts
- Medium
- cotton with plastic buttons
- Department
- NMAAHC
- Institution
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- nmaahc_2012.117.1ab
- Credit
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Carlotta Walls LaNier