Little Rock Nine

Introduction George Silk photo of Little Rock Integration was taken on September 25th 1957. This piece is a part of Life Photo Collection located in New York, New York. I chose this artwork, because it reminds me of how hard it was for integration in the Deep South especially in my home state of Arkansas. My first impression is how much courage it took for nine African-American students to go against all odds and enter Central High on that day. Also, this shows me how hard it was to be black…

Blacks integrate the school Alex Cole Spencer Little Rock Central High school- The very first high school to integrate white and black students. On the morning of September 23, 1957 was when the Little Rock Nine first came to the school. The Little Rock Nine were stopped by armed guards and a mob of protesters. The guards were sent by Governor Oral Faubus. Mob surrounding one of the Little Rock NIne students Orval Faubus claims the blacks do not belong in the whites schools. The black…

A young woman had just 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…

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…

Melba Beals had been a little girl, who helped integrate Black and White schools. Jackie Robinson integrated major league sports by being the first black baseball player. Then Feng…

experiences when she and eight others integrated into Central High School. Integrating caused her to to lose all of her past fun activities, because if she was caught out in public, she could be badly injured. One day, Melba was walking home from Little Rock High School, when a stranger asked her if she wanted a ride. If it were not for Marissa, a bully to Melba, she could have been raped. “I couldn’t figure out what he was doing, but I knew that it had to be bad. I scratched and kicked and…

First Day of Central High The first day that Melba Pattil was at Central High she had to be supported by the soldiers, because she wouldn’t have made it if the soldiers were not by her side. She was getting hit with things like acid and they were using bad language toward Melba as the soldiers were escorting her into the school. Caption about the picture above. As she walked into the school, she was so scared. Once her classes started, she was not treated right because the student…

School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Daisy Bates, NAACP president in Little Rock, choose nine African American students to integrate Central High. These nine students are now known as the Little Rock Nine, which include: Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Patillo, and Carlotta Walls. On September 4, 1957, crowds of protesters, white parents and students alike, ridiculed them and refused to let these nine…

Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation. When he used Arkansas National guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black children. That day they had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate. People say that Governor Faubus action’s created a crisis with the President. You may call him D. Eisenhower, his full Dr.…

case of Brown, nothing was provided for by way of enforcement – and little would be provided in the next decade to compel school districts to integrate. For two, the lukewarm stance of then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower failed to give the civil rights movement and the integration of public schools the support and federal push that may have helped the desegregation process to progress faster. Eisenhower believed that there was little that the government could do for integration because it…