Little Rock Nine

Central High School (Stone). Ernst Green was one of the nine African Americans that were carefully chosen to take part in the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (Little Rock). The Nine African American students that were picked for this brave action were called the Little Rock Nine. These students were a massive part in the Civil Rights Movement. Little Rock, Arkansas, like many southern cities, was very segregated. The nine students went through a lot of hardships, but in the

The Little Rock Nine Living in the 21st Century, it is difficult to imagine a time in the history of the United States that black students could not attend the same public schools that white students attended. In his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” Dr. Martin Luther King said, “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and

Imagine if you were a young 15 year old girl or boy growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas and the Supreme Court just ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional. So you enroll in a previously white only school. As you enter on your first day of school, there are people outside that school yelling and screaming at you. There are armed men outside your school that will not let you enter. You eventually get let in through a side door. The next thing that you know you are in the school and people

The Little Rock Nine The Little Rock Nine were one of the most brave groups of people to enroll in a High School ever, they were one of the most important groups of people that changed segregation and racism in schools. The nine African - American students that attended Little Rock Central High School did not have it easy. Governor Faubus did not like that they were attending High School so he sent in Arkansas National Guard on September 4, 1957. Due to the National Guard, the nine could not

What was it like to live during a time when white and blacks went to separate schools? Thanks to the Little Rock Nine, younger and future generations will never have to know. Led by Daisy Gatson Bates; students Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls took action (History.com). These brave and determined students helped shape education into what it is today by being the first African American

and then eventually burning it while other kids cheered. Some boys held Confederate Flags while they burned and beat the black dummy. None of the hostile kids were questioned by the police or in trouble by the school. Most of the time, the Little Rock Nine did not react to the taunting and the abuse. They just acted like it did not phase them. They did this to show that they were the bigger person but also so they did not get in trouble. On December 17, 1957, Minnijean Brown went to lunch and 2

Little Rock Nine On September 25, 2017, former President Bill Clinton opened the doors of Little Rock High School in Arkansas for the 40th reunion of the “Little Rock Nine.” Forty years ago, the desegregation of the school shook the nation. Nine African American teenagers decided to take a stand and do the unimaginable. Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, and Terrence Roberts were the tenacious students

The Little Rock Nine were nine African Americans who went to the all white Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school opened in 1927 and was originally called Little Rock Senior High School. The African Americans enrolled in September in 1957. The Little Rock Nine were Ernest Green, born in 1941, Elizabeth Eckford, born in 1941, Jefferson Thomas, born and died 1942- 2010, Terrence Roberts, born 1941, Gloria Ray Karlmark, born 1942, Melba Pattillo Beals, born 1941, Thelma Mothershed

de-segregated school was a group called the Little Rock Nine. They were a group of Nine African American high school students who were admitted to the Little Rock Central High School. While some welcomed the change many others didn’t. For the first few days of school, the path to the entrance was blocked by a blockade. The blockable became so large that eventually, Governor Orval Fabus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to assist in stopping the Little Rock Nine from entering. His motives became clear

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