The country has faced many challenges throughout the years. Challenges of unequal rights, economic issues, and most importantly challenges of diversity and racism. Throughout the years that diversity has begun to deteriorate and the country has at last become closer to one. The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students who became the first to integrate into and all white high school contributed to the deterioration of that diversity. Although the Little Rock Nine encountered a lot of suffering and diversity, they fought through great obstacles to bring the world into unity and helped expand the door of education for African American students.
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The nine students were chosen by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, an African-American newspaper. They were chosen based on their determination and strength to cope with challenging circumstances and for the following weeks would be put in counseling classes to prepare for what is to come. Out of the total seventeen students that were chosen to integrate Central High School, only nine of them accepted and proceeded with the enrollment process. These nine student became known as the Little Rock Nine. The nine students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green , Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls all with different personalizes and characterics but all with the same goal in mind; searching for a better education and equal …show more content…
“President Eisenhower’s willingness to use troops for school desegregation was controversial, but it marked the beginning of the U.S. government’s commitment to desegregated schools. Little Rock was also the beginning of a series of struggles over school desegregation that continued for several decades across the nation. The event proved to be one of the defining events during the early Civil Rights movement” (Bankston par 10). The article describes this event to be one of the first events of the civil rights movement. Which three the years became a really important part of this nation's development and
The world of desegregating schools began on May 17, 1950. It was a result of the …show more content…
The nine students were chosen by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, an African-American newspaper. They were chosen based on their determination and strength to cope with challenging circumstances and for the following weeks would be put in counseling classes to prepare for what is to come. Out of the total seventeen students that were chosen to integrate Central High School, only nine of them accepted and proceeded with the enrollment process. These nine student became known as the Little Rock Nine. The nine students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green , Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls all with different personalizes and characterics but all with the same goal in mind; searching for a better education and equal …show more content…
“President Eisenhower’s willingness to use troops for school desegregation was controversial, but it marked the beginning of the U.S. government’s commitment to desegregated schools. Little Rock was also the beginning of a series of struggles over school desegregation that continued for several decades across the nation. The event proved to be one of the defining events during the early Civil Rights movement” (Bankston par 10). The article describes this event to be one of the first events of the civil rights movement. Which three the years became a really important part of this nation's development and