Little Rock Nine The little rock nine was a group of nine African American students who went to Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They were one of high schools that blacks were not allowed to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The local leader of NAACP was a lady whom name was Daisy Bates. Daisy recruited nine African American high school students to enroll at Central High. The nine brave black students were Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence
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To whom, the crowd that gathered in anger and was abusive to the young teenagers and forced them to turn away. When Elizabeth Eckford arrived at the campus at the intersection of 14th and Park Streets, she was confronted by an angry crowd of segregationist protestors. She attempted to enter at the front of the school but was directed back out to the street by the guardsmen. The rest of the Nine arrived the same day and gathered at the south, or 16th Street, corner where they and an integrated group of local ministers who were there to support them were also turned away by guardsmen.
On May 24, 1955, the Little Rock School Board voted to adopt a plan for gradual integration. This plan was known as the Blossom Plan or the Little Rock Phase Program. The plan was designed for desegregation to begin in the fall of 1957 at Central and filter down to the lower grades over the next six years. The plan was set up to permit students to transfer from any school where their race was in the minority, thus ensuring that the black schools would remain racially
To whom, the crowd that gathered in anger and was abusive to the young teenagers and forced them to turn away. When Elizabeth Eckford arrived at the campus at the intersection of 14th and Park Streets, she was confronted by an angry crowd of segregationist protestors. She attempted to enter at the front of the school but was directed back out to the street by the guardsmen. The rest of the Nine arrived the same day and gathered at the south, or 16th Street, corner where they and an integrated group of local ministers who were there to support them were also turned away by guardsmen.
On May 24, 1955, the Little Rock School Board voted to adopt a plan for gradual integration. This plan was known as the Blossom Plan or the Little Rock Phase Program. The plan was designed for desegregation to begin in the fall of 1957 at Central and filter down to the lower grades over the next six years. The plan was set up to permit students to transfer from any school where their race was in the minority, thus ensuring that the black schools would remain racially