tense and anxious
federal troops were sent.
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.-Novanet
in 1965
Little Rock Central High School was created in 1927.
Minnijean Brown graduated from New Lincoln High in New York. Elizabeth Eckford did not graduate high school, but had taken enough college credits to be accepted by Knox University. Ernest Green graduated from Central High first, because he was a senior. Thelma Mothershed received her diploma by mail from Central High. Melba Pattillo graduated from Santa Rosa, CA, school unknown. Carlotta Walls graduated from Central High. Terrence Roberts graduated from Los Angeles High in Los Angeles. Jefferson Thomas graduated from Central. Gloria Ray graduated from Kansas Central High.
Dwight Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to force integration of Central High there.
federal troops were sent.
Integration of Central high School in Little rock, Arkansas.
A school that went through integration around 1957.
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.-Novanet
Eisenhower was the President in 1957 when the crisis over integration occurred at Little Rock Central High School.
The Little Rock Nine were the first nine black students that went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957, which was an all white school. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
The 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas lends its name to the nine students who were chosen to be the first blacks to enter that school.
He sent federal troops to oversee the integration of Central High School in Little Rock
"Little Rock Nine" refers to the nine African American students who were the first to integrate the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
"Little Rock Nine" refers to the nine African American students who were the first to integrate the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
The integration of black students into Little Rock Central High School is the subject of this story.