Riley Johns: Little Rock Central High’s First Black Tiger

Remembering Riley Johns, LRCH’s black trainer and groundskeeper of the Jim Crow era The history of race in the South is an often ugly, usually messy, always complicated thing. I graduated from Little Rock Central High, which the Little Rock Nine dramatically integrated in 1957 in the most serious test to Brown v. Board of … Continue reading Riley Johns: Little Rock Central High’s First Black Tiger