Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Shuttering AP African American Studies

The front entrance of Little Rock Historic Central High School, which was the site of a successful integration campaign by nine Black students in 1957, in Little Rock, Arkansas.Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors.

“It seems to be there’s a movement afoot around the country to restrict not only courses in African American studies, but almost any other thing that you can like think of, that might lead to students developing a more thorough understanding of what’s truly going on around them,” Little Rock Nine member Terrance Robertsstruggling to pin one down.

Teachers could face sanctions and potentially lose their education license for violating the law, which also repealed longstanding employment protections for schoolteachers. The law unconstitutionally chills speech in a way that unfairly targets Black students, teachers and their ideas, according to the lawsuit.

Walls was named “Teacher of the Year” the previous school year and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. A day after notifying the school, Oliva showed up to observe her teaching an AP African American Studies class, which had been approved by the state as a pilot five months earlier, according to the lawsuit. Toward the end of class, Walls paused her instruction to give Oliva a copy of the curriculum.

The lawsuit claims AP African American Studies was piloted at Central High during the 2022-2023 school year without incident, and six schools requested to offer the class in 2023-2024. Three days before the school year began, the Arkansas Department of Education abruptly “revoked” approval for the class, according to the lawsuit.

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