[5] On June 25, 1955, in response to the recent Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Hoxie's superintendent, Kunkel Edward Vance, spearheaded plans to integrate the schools, and he received the unanimous support of Hoxie's school board.

On July 11, 1955, Hoxie schools recommenced and allowed African American students to attend.

In order to do "what was morally right in the sight of God" and to "uphold the law of the land",[4] Vance insisted that all facilities, including restrooms and cafeterias, be integrated.

The teachers and children got along fine, but unlike the two other school districts in Arkansas (Charleston and Fayetteville) that implemented partial integration, Hoxie attracted national attention.

[4] After the publication of the Life article, segregationists from outside the area converged on Hoxie in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the school board decision.

Handbills were printed making wild assertions including allegations of a plot between negroes, Communists, and Jews, and advocating for the death of "Race Mixers".

A group of local citizens, led by soybean farmer Herbert Brewer, confronted the school board in an unproductive meeting.

A lawyer, Amis Guthridge, the leader of White America, inc., attempted to draw more outside influence into the fray, inflaming passions with statements such as calling school integration a "plan that was founded in Moscow in 1924 to mongrelize the white race in America" and claimed that "white Methodist women" wanted integration so they could get negro men into their bedroom.

[7] Johnson, Guthridge and others fanned the flames, and were joined by Orval Faubus in trying to invoke fears of miscegenation in white husbands and parents.

This marked the first intervention by the attorney general in support of any school district attempting to comply with the Brown decision.

Notwithstanding, a conference exploring the situation and its possible effects on the community with the individuals at the core of the problem had worked a minor miracle.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,598 people, 1,186 households, and 616 families residing in the city.