In Little Rock, city officials and businessmen saw gold-mines disappearing.

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As whites began to leave Little Rock's inner city and increasingly place their children in suburban and private schools, Little Rock School District's schools became increasingly African-American.

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In the 1980s, Orfield had testified in the Little Rock consolidation case, and urged the city's school districts to merge.

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Jim Holley of the city's Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church said he didn't expect the emergency manager to be in power for a long time.

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Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock.

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When President Bill Clinton arrived in Houston on September 26th after his trip to Little Rock in Arkansas for the 40th anniversary of that city's school-desegregation crisis in 1957, he chose to speak not at swish Rice University but at a community college.

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The consortium was going to transform Little Rock, like some Hollywood movie set, into the city they desired, with streets and car parks made into fenced-off interview areas with tiered risers for camera crews.

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Little Rock's lawyer, Tom Carpenter, replies that if the city calls something a park then a park it must be.

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Little Rock School District's progress toward being declared desegregated by the government has been slowed by the city's changing neighborhoods and disputes among local education and government leaders, experts say.

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Nora Harris has gone to the courts to try to prevent the city spending on the library money that was originally supposed to be spent on parks and Little Rock's struggling zoo.

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