Imagine if someone was treated differently by everyone else. People looked at them differently, talked to them differently, or stopped them from doing things like choosing a seat on the bus or even going to school, and they thought the color of their skin was justification for that. In the time of civil rights many things in society were segregated. The Little Rock Nine had many positive and negative influences on society, such as it consumed a large amount of attention causing more people to think about racial discrimination in the United States, some southerners were getting angry with the African Americans in the south for trying to cause change and get more rights, and after it was resolved it ultimately helped in the …show more content…
One of the points they tried to make was that there was no reason to integrate. “There Is no need for this problem [integration] except to satisfy the aims of a few white and Negro revolutionaries in the Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.” (Engelbert 43 ). They tried to make the point that there was no reason to integrate other than to make the UL and the NAACP happy. The citizens were not the only ones that were fighting desegregation. Even politicians were involved. The mayor of little rock was on the side of the mobs, saying “It is our responsibility to comply with federal constitutional requirements, and we intend to do so when the Supreme Court of the United States outlines the methods to be followed.” (Engelbert 43). He said they would follow all new rules created by the government as soon as the Supreme Court explains exactly how to do so to defend the fact that they were not fighting the mobs. Transition sentence from end support to concluding …show more content…
Fighting for rights of African Americans also caused some southerners to get angry with them, and once it was resolved it helped in the civil rights movement and lead to more integration in schools and the rest of the south, but those are just some of the positive and negative influences the The Little Rock Nine had on society. The Little Rock Nine brought a lot of attention to the racial discrimination that was happening in the united states and caused more people to think about the issue. The little rock nine also caused many southerners to become angry with african americans for trying to get more rights and start riots. The Little Rock nine helped the civil rights movement progress by causing more action to be taken towards the benefit of African American rights. Those are the positive and negative affects that the little rock nine had on