Schooling in the United States wasn’t always equal. Most United States schools were segregated, but became integrated. Then things started to change. “We are all one - and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.”- Bayard Rustin . This quote describes segregation because we all had to learn the hard way that we are all equal.
Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Most schools were segregated. The “Right to equal education” had been granted to black students in 1954 by the U.S. supreme court, which ruled segregation was illegal, says pbs.org. Although the law declared equality most black students did not want to go to school with students.
September 23, 1957 is a day that no one will forget. There were nine black students that integrated into Little Rock’s Central High School. The nine were Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, and Terrence Roberts. Integration may sound like a good thing, but it didn’t turn out that way. The national guard was at Central High on the Little Rock nine’s first day, her and the other eight thought the guards were there to protect them. But according to Junior Scholastic the guards did not want them there and turned them away. Elizabeth Eckford told Junior Scholastic that the white students also …show more content…
Pattillo Beals is a journalist and has two books that she wrote about her experience at Central High School. Ernest Greene was the first Black student to graduate from Central High School. The bravery of the nine impacted Central High School and the rest of the United States. Terrence Roberts, said “To look at a man of color and call him president is something that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.” This impact turned out to be good, today students of all races attend Little Rock’s Central High
Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Most schools were segregated. The “Right to equal education” had been granted to black students in 1954 by the U.S. supreme court, which ruled segregation was illegal, says pbs.org. Although the law declared equality most black students did not want to go to school with students.
September 23, 1957 is a day that no one will forget. There were nine black students that integrated into Little Rock’s Central High School. The nine were Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, and Terrence Roberts. Integration may sound like a good thing, but it didn’t turn out that way. The national guard was at Central High on the Little Rock nine’s first day, her and the other eight thought the guards were there to protect them. But according to Junior Scholastic the guards did not want them there and turned them away. Elizabeth Eckford told Junior Scholastic that the white students also …show more content…
Pattillo Beals is a journalist and has two books that she wrote about her experience at Central High School. Ernest Greene was the first Black student to graduate from Central High School. The bravery of the nine impacted Central High School and the rest of the United States. Terrence Roberts, said “To look at a man of color and call him president is something that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.” This impact turned out to be good, today students of all races attend Little Rock’s Central High