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Week of September 24, 1957
Little Rock High accepted intergrating in its facilities. -
Desegregation
The decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be known as unconstitutional, and ordered for desegregation of all schools of the nation. -
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Little Rock Nine
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NAACP
The NAACP had registered nine black people to attend the all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on teir grades and attendance. -
Governor Orval Faubus
The "Little Rock Crisis" in which a group of African-American students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. -
"Little Rock Nine"
Little Rock Nine consisted of Ernest Green(1941), Minnie Jean Brown(1941), Elixabeth Ekford(1941), Gloria Ray Karlmark(1941), Jeffer Thomas(1942), Terrance Roberts(1941), Carlotta LaNier(1942), Thelma Mothershed(1940), and Melba Beals(1941) -
Ernest Green
Ernest Green became the first African-American to graduate from the previously all white Central High. -
Arkansas National Guard
On the third day of school, Arkansas National Guard troops would not let them enter the school and they were followed my mobs. -
Intergrating
Central High School of Arkansas was an all white school, they supported desegregation, and were not going to allow Afircan-Americans into their all white school without a fight. -
President Eisenhower
To make sure the students completed a succesful day of school, Eisenhower sent the Airborne Disision to Little Rock, each student has their own potroler to walk them through school, and whites still beat them.. -
Elizabeth Eckford
She arrived alone to Centeral High School where the other eight kids were arrnaged to meet her, but the meeting was arranged to another night and she was not informed, so she walked through screaming mobs chanting " two, four, six, eight, we aint gonna intergrate" into Centeral High. -
Minnejean Brown
Among all of the nine that faced verbal and physical harrasment during the 1950's, Minne was first suspended, then expelled for retaliating against the daily torment.
