The parents of white children did not like the idea of African Americans going to school with their children so they tried to stop them. “The next will be dynamite” (Fradin 3). A member of the K.K.K. went by Mrs. Bates home and threw a rock through the window that had a note on it that threatened all of their lives (Fradin 3). Many people made death threats to Mrs. Bates, The Little Rock Nine, and their families. They eventually had to have the Little Rock Police guarding their homes (Jacoway 185).
The day before the 1957 school year started the people of Little Rock were getting ready to fight against the African Americans that were about to walk into the school (Fradin 1). Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to stop the students from entering (Ahmed 1) “By 9 P.M. on September 2, the day before school was to start, 300 Arkansas National Guardsman began to surround Central High School” (Fitzgerald 30). The majority of people in the South did not like the African Americans and them getting a chance to go to a white school; they were happy to see the National Guard was there to stop