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Little Rock 9

Radiesha Vassell. Little Rock 9. Who Were the Little Rock 9…. The Little Rock Nine  were a group of African American students enrolled in The Little Rock Central High in 1957 ( Wikipedia contributors).

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Little Rock 9

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  1. Radiesha Vassell Little Rock 9

  2. Who Were the Little Rock 9… • TheLittle Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in The Little Rock Central High in 1957 ( Wikipedia contributors). • They were nine students whowere prevented to enter this high school based on segregation laws ( Wikipedia contributors). • Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls—attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were recruited by Daisy Bates (“Little”).

  3. What Happened? • On the first day of school , when nine students tried to enter Little Rock Central High, an angry white mob along with Arkansas Nation Guard gathered in front of the school to prevent them from getting in. • Before this, attorney ThurgoodMarshall had successfully argued for the integration of schools in Brown v the Board of Education. • Little Rock was the first school to be integrated. • With the support of the Little Rock mayor and President Eisenhower, the students were given 1000 troops to protect them going into the school. • The students successfully entered the school through a side entrance on 23 September 1957. • Fearing escalating mob violence, however, the students were rushed home soon afterward (“Little”).

  4. The Impact of the Little Rock Nine • The next year they closed four of the public high schools – a way of saying they would rather have no schools than an integrated school. • Four months later the Supreme Court order them to reopen schools and continue desegregating (“ Little”). • They were the first set of African American children to attend an all white school. • The impact was basically about schools being intergraded with African ‘American students • The impact it had on the county is that students wouldn’t be able to be in schools now if these nine students weren't brave enough to enter Central High.

  5. What Is life? Ernest Green In 1958, he became the first black student to graduate from Central High School. Jefferson Thomas He graduated from Central in 1960, following a year in which Little Rock's public high schools were ordered closed by the legislature to prevent desegregation. Today, he is an accountant with the U.S. Department of Defense and lives in Anaheim, Calif. Elizabeth Eckford The only one of the nine still living in Little Rock, Elizabeth made a career of the U.S. Army that included work as a journalist. In 1974, she returned to the home in which she grew up and is now a part-time social worker and mother of two sons. Dr. Terrence Roberts Following the historic year at Central, his family moved to Los Angeles where he completed high school. He earned a doctorate degree and teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and Antioc College. He also is a clinical psychologist.

  6. What is life? Minnijean Brown Trickey She was expelled from Central High in February, 1958, after several incidents, including her dumping a bowl of chili on one of her antagonists in the school cafeteria. She moved with her husband to Canada during the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s and today is a writer and social worker in Ontario. Winterstar Productions is presently filming a documentary on her life. Thelma Mothershed-Wair She graduated from college, then made a career of teaching. She lives in Belleville, Illinois, where she is a volunteer in a program for abused women. Melba PattilloBeals She is an author and former journalist for People magazine and NBC and lives in San Francisco. Carlotta Walls Lanier One of only three of the nine who eventually graduated from Central, she and Jefferson Thomas returned for their senior year in 1959. She graduated from Michigan State University and presently lives in Englewood, Colorado, where she is in real estate.

  7. !!Reflection!! What was the most interesting piece of my research? • The most interesting part of my research was basically just reading up on facts based on the Little Rock Nine. Reading what each student had to go through and imagining if I was in there shoes at the time. How did my research enhance my understanding of Jim Crow Laws in the south and the civil right movement? • To understand the Jim Crow Laws in the south I had to have a visual. See how white people really didn’t want schools to be intergraded. • To understand how the Little Rock Nine connected to the Civil Rights Movement I had to watch variety of interview that showed the kids struggles. How did I organize my information? - The way I organized my information was from past to present. I choose the most important facts that I thought people should know and put them in order.

  8. Work Cited • Wikipedia Contributors. "Little Rock 9." Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine>. • "Little Rock School Desegregation (1957)." N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013. <http://mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia /enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/>.

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