The Citizens’ Rights
Volume 8
The Nation’s Favorite Quarterly Newspaper
Winter Edition
1957
Little Rock’s Central High Integrated by Tyler Dickson
This fall Little Rock’s Central High School was integrated. Nine black students were chosen to participate in the integration. These strong individuals endure tauntings and beatings on a daily basis. These students are some of the finest and most well behaved young adults I have ever spoken with.
The NAACP has offered support and help to the nine pupils during this difficult time. There has been much opposition to the court approved plan for desegregation and the opposition will continue. We must continue to peacefully protest until this unjust situation is resolved.
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Nine Negro students were plucked out of a mass of volunteers by school officials on the standards of attendance and outstanding grades. These pupils are: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. On the first day of the 1957 school year, Governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to Central High to support the segregationists protesting integration on the grounds of Central …show more content…
On the night of Parks’ arrest, planning for a bus boycott began. The boycott began on Oct. 3, 1955 and continued for 381 days. The boycott was extremely effective which caused severe economic distress against bus companies. After the boycott came to an end, the city passed a law that allowed black bus passengers to sit wherever they choose.
Young Black Boy Brutally Murdered by Tyler Dickson
Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, was brutally beaten to death in Money, Mississippi. Emmett was visiting family in Money, Mississippi (he lived in Chicago, Illinois.) Till jokingly flirted with a married white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market. 3 days after Till’s encounter with Carolyn, Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, kidnapped Till. Then, Roy Bryant beat Till until he was unrecognizable, shot him in the back of his head, and tossed his mangled body into the Tallahatchie River.
3 days later, Till’s disfigured body was found by 2 boys that were fishing on the Tallahatchie River. While racial incentives have been part of homicides in the South for years, this incident is a ridiculous story of a child who unknowingly defied an unfair racial caste system. No one was ever indicted for Till’s murder or kidnapping despite the piles of evidence against Roy
Volume 8
The Nation’s Favorite Quarterly Newspaper
Winter Edition
1957
Little Rock’s Central High Integrated by Tyler Dickson
This fall Little Rock’s Central High School was integrated. Nine black students were chosen to participate in the integration. These strong individuals endure tauntings and beatings on a daily basis. These students are some of the finest and most well behaved young adults I have ever spoken with.
The NAACP has offered support and help to the nine pupils during this difficult time. There has been much opposition to the court approved plan for desegregation and the opposition will continue. We must continue to peacefully protest until this unjust situation is resolved.
The Power …show more content…
Nine Negro students were plucked out of a mass of volunteers by school officials on the standards of attendance and outstanding grades. These pupils are: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. On the first day of the 1957 school year, Governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to Central High to support the segregationists protesting integration on the grounds of Central …show more content…
On the night of Parks’ arrest, planning for a bus boycott began. The boycott began on Oct. 3, 1955 and continued for 381 days. The boycott was extremely effective which caused severe economic distress against bus companies. After the boycott came to an end, the city passed a law that allowed black bus passengers to sit wherever they choose.
Young Black Boy Brutally Murdered by Tyler Dickson
Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, was brutally beaten to death in Money, Mississippi. Emmett was visiting family in Money, Mississippi (he lived in Chicago, Illinois.) Till jokingly flirted with a married white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market. 3 days after Till’s encounter with Carolyn, Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, kidnapped Till. Then, Roy Bryant beat Till until he was unrecognizable, shot him in the back of his head, and tossed his mangled body into the Tallahatchie River.
3 days later, Till’s disfigured body was found by 2 boys that were fishing on the Tallahatchie River. While racial incentives have been part of homicides in the South for years, this incident is a ridiculous story of a child who unknowingly defied an unfair racial caste system. No one was ever indicted for Till’s murder or kidnapping despite the piles of evidence against Roy