Little Rock Central High School

of the most populous being Little Rock. Besides being the capital and one of the most visited cities in Arkansas, Little Rock is known for many of its attractions, food, and most importantly it’s historical events. Little Rock was established in November of 1851 and derived its name from a rock formation along the “La Petite Roche” river. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County, which may contribute to the reason why this thriving city is so populous. Little Rock has various centers…

Little Rock Nine The Little Rock Nine started at Central High School with: Melba Pattillo, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Carlotta Walls, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts, and Jefferson Thomas. They were the only African Americans who tried to attend Central High. Since that school was only for white students, the nine African American students couldn’t go to that school. So they made a plan on how to get inside the school. But, since Elizabeth…

On September 4, 1957, African American students stepped foot into an all-white high school for their first day of classes for the first time in United States history. These courageous students, known as the Little Rock Nine, put the court case Brown v. Board of Education (1954) into action when they arrived at Central High School. Under the case decision, segregation in public schools would be considered illegal; this resulted in disbelief and upheaval within the white communities. However, for…

arrived for her first day of school and begun to stroll down the sidewalk, but her easygoing expression had soon been stricken with fear. Had I not known better, I could have believed that I was witnessing a rock concert; however, nothing but rage and hatred derided from the crowd. As a sophomore myself, I did not much care for trying to wade through a crowd of that size and temperament. The night prior, nothing but gossip filled the air about “Why does it have to be his school that has to be…

from it. The Little Rock Nine demonstrated this when the group of African American students struggled to integrate into an all white school as the other students harassed them. While in order to be fair, children of all races need to receive the best education possible,…

her journey begins she must tell herself "to be like a soldier in battle" and not "cry or mope" (149) when she is taunted and harassed in school. At this junction, "Warriors Don't Dry" is a command for herself. Yet, she develops "fierce self-confidence that is aptly attributed the warrior" (144) as the memoir progresses. Through her experiences at Central High, Beals actually begins to embody the warrior persona which she has fought to make herself believe she is; without this, the…

segregation in their school systems immediately. Not surprisingly, many states in the South fought this new regulation tooth and nail, but the textbook raised one particularly interesting case: Governor Orval Faubus. Facing reelection, he attempted to justify his now-illegal action of upholding segregation in his state’s school systems by holding that he was doing it to represent the desires of his constituency. Even as the nine new black students (who came to be known as the Little Rock Nine)…

to 0 The Brown vs. the Board of Education case challenged the racial segregation in public schools in Topeka, Kansas. After the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, the “separate-but-equal” doctrine accredited to racially segregated schools. Linda Brown, an African American third grader, had to walk a mile to her school when a white school was only blocks away. There were eighteen white schools to four black schools in her neighborhood. Topeka NAACP leader, McKinley Burnett, gathered plaintiffs for the…

Released in 2000 and produced by Walt Disney Pictures (and Jerry Bruckheimer Films), Remember the Titans is a sports film dramatization of the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who was an integral part of the 1971 integration of T.C. Williams High School (and consequently, its football program). Naturally (due both to the close proximity to the Civil Rights movement, and to the setting of Virginia), this was a highly controversial change that was met with opposition both externally from the…

times in history, certain groups have been limited freedom. They are seen as inferior, and are mistreated. They have barely any rights, and do not know how to get out of it, and if it will ever get better. This happened in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine students integrated into a school of white children, and they were not treated nicely. They need to know what role to play in order to gain more freedom. Individuals play a huge part in how their futures will turn out. The most important role that…