Little Rocks Arkansas: A Short Story

In 1954, the Supreme Court took a step in history with the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka by stating that, “In the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’, has no place. Separate facilities are inheritably unequal.” Little Rock, Arkansas a city in the upper south became a location of a controversial attempt to put the court order into effect when nine African American students were chosen to desegregate Central High in Little Rock. How did the Little Rock Nine affect America? Sanford Wexler stated in The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History,” its “effect would ripple across the nation and influence the growing Civil Rights Movement;” in addition, the Little Rock crisis forced the federal government

the two women came, much like the growth the Unites States has made in bringing about racial equality, they were never able to cross that line and fully accept one another.

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Civil rights refer to the rights of every human no matter the race or belief and is an important part of the U.S history. From Martin Luther King to The Little Rock Nine, people have been fighting for civil rights. In fact, the Little Rock Nine helped fight for desegregation in school. Everyday the Little Rock Nine struggled to have equal rights at the school. The Little Rock Nine changed the course of history. Without them, things would not be as they are today.

In 1957 Arkansas, a group of nine black students enrolled at an all-white Central High School, marking what is known as today as the Little Rock Nine. The U.S. Supreme Court declared desegregation of public schools due to the decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. On the first day of school, the Central High Principal called the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students from entering the high school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school later that September.

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American high school students who, in September of 1954, enrolled in the all-white high school, Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students enrolled in order to test out the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling to unsegregate public schools. The members of the Little Rock Nine were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls. They were trained by members of the NAACP on how to deal with the aversion that they would face upon trying to enroll in Central High School. The students upon approaching the school on what was supposed to be their first day of school were met with a group

Tabitha eyes on prize – In high school I took a government class and learned about popular court cases and Brown vs Board of education was one of them. If I wouldn’t have taken that class I would’ve never known about Brown vs. Board of education until college. Same situation for the Little Rock Nine, I watched the documentary in TSOC 2000 my sophomore year and I think it is unfortunate I didn’t learn about them until I was in college.

Little Rock’s population is 193,524 and is the capital of Arkansas. Little Rock has the main house of government in the state of Arkansas. Also Little Rock is the most famous city in Arkansas.

A family of four were living on the second floor of a building in Leeward. During a normal Saturday night, the father and daughter who was just 14 years old went to a party. The mother and baby were left alone in the apartment. As the mother was in the yellow tile kitchen with a spoon in her hand and the small baby in the large white bed, there was a loud hysterical scream in the air. The mom jumped up and rushed towards the square shaped window. As she looked out the window there was a domino effect of people turning on their dull yellow light bulbs. The sound of a wailing siren was heard throughout the neighborhood as an ambulance and police cars came rushing over to the crime scene. She wored her slippers on and carried the child outside in the chilling cold night. She saw everything: red and blue lights being shined through the cars. The two lifeless bodies on the hard black road, a man and a woman. Police officers were scattered all over the street with yellow tape in their hands that read “Do not cross”. The yellow tape was put all around the neighborhood, not letting anyone in or

For many people the very mention of the word “Arkansas” conjures up images that are unflattering and certainly not very complimentary. To suggest that Arkansas is “a different state” is to guarantee almost immediate agreement from any given audience, but such agreement is usually about the negative aspects of the state instead of the ones making for actual difference.

The eerie feeling the surrounding lake gave me was threatening, so threatening it made me want to turn back. Usually I can handle cases like this, but this time it was different. It was pitch and the only hint of light was the moon reflecting of the soft waves of the water. The only sounds was the tide, splashing against the old dock I was standing on at a steady pace. I watched my surrounding cautiously. You could never be too careful out here, but with a job like mine, you always have to be careful.

In July 1993 Hardin, Missouri it was a day like other in the small town . The day was gray and the dark clouds covered the enormous sun. It started to rain,but what they didn’t know was that the storm was going to get worse! The little river in Missouri was the one that started it all. Water rushed faster than my mom on Black Friday, into their homes. The people rushed out of their homes. The storm got worse,but what they didn’t think of was that there was a little problem the dead was going to rise but they would not walk but float! This is what happened the water rushed to the cemetery and made the coffins of the towns loved ones had came up in the surface

Thematic Essay Draft Steven Millhauser wrote the short story “The Invasion From Outer Space” which takes place in a small town, where extraordinary things don’t happen everyday. Imagine a regular town, full of ordinary people that are just like everyone else. Until one day when something unknown had been detected from outer space, approaching the atmosphere at great speed. Even though the townspeople were terrified and curious about this unknown object, they felt a certain calm, like this sort of thing happens everyday.

Imagine going to high school. You get your bag and sack lunch together, and begin the trek down the road to your school. Except, when you reach your high school’s campus, the military has to escort you. Up the steps, through the halls, even within every classroom that you go to. All until you have left school’s campus at the end of the day. This isn’t something that just happens every day, but it did happen. The event described is about nine African-American high school students that integrated into a formerly all-white high school. These students were later known as the Little Rock Nine. There are many instances, both in the past and today, where people are discriminated against and made fun of simply because of who they are. Not only because of the color of their skin or their sex, but also because of how much education they have, or what type of job that one has. Over time, of course, this discrimination of all these types have become less and less common. However, several decades ago, they were quite common. In some Romanticist writings, one can find that there are those that attempted to combat this discrimination through their words, and two pieces that assisted this were Walt Whitman’s A Song for Occupations and Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century both explore this once controversial topic of equal rights.

I was at my grandparent’s house, on the side streets of Smithton, playing baseball one fall day after school with my brother. We were swinging the heavy wooden bats and connecting perfectly with the faded baseball. Then, I hit it just right; the ball whistled through the air like a missile through the basement window with a loud crash. My grandma rushed outside and immediately sighed in relief when she realized no one was hurt. She asked what happened, in a calm manner.