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“If…he hoped to outbluff the former Allied supreme commander in World War II by barking commands at state reserve units, the governor was out of his depth,” said Robert Weisbrot in Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement. President Dwight D. Eisenhower the former supreme commander wasn’t going to let Faubus defy the federal government. Eisenhower met with Faubus to make sure that Faubus would do what the federal government ordered. After their meeting, Faubus made no attempt to fix anything which caused Eisenhower to federalize the National Guard and to send the 101st Airborne Division to protect the nine African American students. The soldiers escorted the African American students into Central High and to all their classes.

The Little Rock Nine faced many struggles, and dealing with the Governor of Arkansas was one of them. As Elizabeth Eckford recalled in her interview with Facing History and Ourselves, she “walked further down the line of guards to where there was another sidewalk,” but when she “stepped up, they crossed rifles” (Eckford). She was informed the night before that there would be guards at the door, but she thought it was to protect them. This didn’t seem to be the case for her, though, because after trying three times to enter the school, she was led by a soldier into the crowd of angry people, shouting for her to leave. She said that they, “to [her] ears sounded like a mob” (Eckford). This was society’s first reaction to the Little Rock Nine,

At the White House, Cecil witnesses Eisenhower's reluctance to make use of troops to enforce faculty group action within the South, then his resolve to uphold the law by racially group action state capital

What was Little Rock Nine? It was a group of nine African American's who had enrolled to an all-white school in September of 1957. In 1954 Little Rock, Arkansas supreme court had passed the bill that segregation in public schools would be considered "unconstitutional". On September 4, 1957 was the first day at Central High. Orval Faubus (governor) had called for Arkansas National Guard to convoyer all the "black" students from entering the school. During that month President Dwight D. Eisenhower went and sent federal troops to help sheild the "Little Rock Nine" into the school.

Over thousands of blacks were discriminated in the 1950s because of their skin color. Blacks and whites were prohibited to go to the same school just because of their skin color. However, in the year of 1957 the Little Rock Nine were the first nine black students that integrated to Central High. If this group of people didn’t have the courage to attend Central High our schools would be extremely different today.

After the Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the supreme court ruled segregation unconstitutional. People in the south saw this change/ rule a violation of the 10 amendments rights. Years later, an event happened known as The Little Rock Crisis. The little rock crisis was when nine black students tried to go into a segregated school, in Little Rock Arkansas, September 1957-58. President Eisenhower, who sent the 101st airborne division. Was justified to do this action. He was justified to do this due to it being his duty to carry out the law, and because the protesters who were stopping the Little Rock Nine from going to school, were being violent.

The Little Rock Nine volunteer to enter the segregated high school they had a choice, the choice of entering the high school. The Little Rock Nine volunteer to enter the segregated high school they knew risks if they agree to enter high school. The Little Rock Nine was chosen because of their excellence grades and perfect attendance, the NAACP thought they would be great for integrating into segregated high school but they had faced tons of issues. One of the many problems was that the Little Rock Nine were stopped by angry riots and officers that were ordered by the governor of Arkansas, president Eisenhower had to send the National Guard to escort the Little Rock Nine into the high school. The Little Rock Nine had faced tremendous amounts of discrimination in the high school, they had to endure being called racial slurs and possibly being physically harm. What the Little Rock Nine did change our society we wouldn’t have different races in our schools or have a teacher that is a different race. There is still discrimination and forms of exclusion in schools that still exist. Discrimination and forms of exclusion in schools still exist in today’s modern society and it is affecting our

The Supreme Court planned to desegregate schools. “In September 1957, nine black teenagers hoped to break a racial wall at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.” (Benson 1). Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls were the students who became the little rock nine. (Lucas 7). Daisy Bates planned to help them get to school. (Lucas 5). “Many White Southern Parents did not want the black students to go school with white children.” (Lucas 13). All the black students were excited for the first day of school. (Lucas 12).

On September 1958 one year after Central High was integrated, Governor Faubus closed down Little Rock’s high schools for the entire year, pending a public vote to prevent African Americans from attending. At the end Little Rock citizens voted 19,470 against integration, to 7,561 and therefore the schools remained closed. After this happened none of the other Little ROck Nine stayed at Central High, instead the rest of the Little Rock Nine completed the year in other high schools across the country, and the Little Rock high schools didn’t reopen until in August

ixty years ago, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a flashpoint in the nascent civil-rights movement when Governor Orval Faubus refused to abide by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Faubus famously deployed the state’s National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending classes at the high school. In the midst of the crisis, a high-school journalist interviewing Louis Armstrong about an upcoming tour asked the musician about his thoughts on the situation, prompting Armstrong to refer to the Arkansas governor as several varieties of “motherfucker.” (In the interest of finding a printable quote, his label for Faubus was changed to “ignorant plowboy.”) Armstrong, who was scheduled

Elizabeth Eckford at Little Rock’s Central High School. This was one of the first colored girls to go to a school filled with hateful white Americans. She was surrounded by a hateful mob when she arrived at class for the first day. Elizabeth stayed strong, and eventually was able to attend school with the white, along with many other African Americans in the country. This changed the way people would be educated across America. One last major event that changed segregation forever is when President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock in 1957. The President had to get involved when angry white parents and even the Governor of Arkansas refused to allow the eight black students attend the Central High School in Little Rock. When the student’s

Despite this, Little Rock High School unjustly refused to accept Black pupils. In 1957, when nine Black pupils tried to enter the school they were sent away by a large crowd and state troopers. This was reported to Eisen Howersuit, leader of the Federal Government at the time, he backed the pupils by sending in 11,000 of his troops to escort them in and out of school for a year. This was another positive step towards equality and there was a noticeable increase in integration within schools

President Lincoln was a master in his understanding of the importance collaboration held to his unification effort. The initial problem he faced in the film is that of passing the thirteenth amendment by the end of January,

The night before the Little Rock Nine were to go to Central High School, Gov. Faubus appeared on television and stated that he would have the Arkansas National Guard in front of the school to prevent the black children's entry. He claimed that it was "for the protection of the children". Faubus had no proof yet he claimed that a violent resistance had been planned and this was for the good of the blacks. Faubus created a self-fulfilling prophecy and sure enough, a violent mob stood outside the school the following day.

The story of Beowulf is a heroic epic, chronicling the distinguished deeds of the great Geatish warrior, Beowulf, who travels across the seas to rid the Danes of the evil monster Grendel, who has been inflicting destruction and terrorizing the kingdom. Beowulf is glorified for his heroic deeds of ridding the land fiendish monsters and stopping the scourge of evil, while the monster, Grendel, is portrayed as a repugnant creature who deserves death for its evil actions. However, many have disagreed with such a simplistic and biased representation of Grendel and his role in the epic poem. John Gardner in his book, Grendel, sets out to change the reader’s perception of Grendel and his role in Beowulf by narrating the story through Grendel’s point of view. John Gardner transforms Grendel, once perceived as an evil fiend in Beowulf, into a lonely but intelligent outcast who is actually quite similar to humans, due to his intelligence capacity for rational thought and his real, and at times irrational emotions. Gardner portrays Grendel as a hurt individual and as a victim of oppression, ostracized from civilization. Although the two works revolve around the same basic plot,, the themes and characters in Beowulf and Grendel are often different and sometimes contradictory.