Separate But Equal Doctrine
THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
The Separate but Equal was a doctrine that stated that services,facilities,and public places could be separated by race as long as other accommodations were equal. This doctrine soon became very controversial; many did not believe in the Separate but equal doctrine because it was not as equal as it portrayed itself to be, especially when it came to wanting to receive a quality education. Many fought to have schools desegregated so that African-Americans could attend school with whites. In the month of May 17,1954 the Supreme court deemed that all laws that established segregation in schools were unconstitutional. But on September 2, 1957 the town of Little Rock, Arkansas would stand against this decision that would …show more content…
U.S Congressman Brook Hayes and the Mayor of Little Rock Woodrow Mann reported to the federal government for help. First by U.S Marshals and later on September 24,1957, Mann would send a telegram to President Eisenhower asking for troops. The troops were sent immediately and the President also federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard, taking them from the governor. The following day the nine students entered the school under the protection of 1,000 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. But there was no protection for what would go on in their lives daily when they went to school .The nine students were still subjected to daily taunts, verbal and physical threats by the white students. One of the girls Melba Patillo had acid thrown into her eyes. But soon things would go from being tense to loosening …show more content…
On May 27 1958, Little Rock Central High School had gone a whole year being integrated. Now there was 601 students graduating with Ernest Green being the first black male to graduate from Little Rock Central High. The faculty and staff stayed determined to put the new law of the land into retrospect. For if harassment continued, amongst the white there would be an acceptance of 100 black students. Even though some of the white students weren't two thrilled on desegregation, they still abode by the law. Soon some of the white students started to look at what was in important and that was their education. So many took upon themselves to work with the black students to help them achieve and receive the same opportunity.
But on August 1958, Faubus would ask the state legislature to pass a law the would allow him to closed public schools and turn them into private school corporations. The following year the law was put into action, and it would soon be recognized as The Lost Years. In the year of 1959 in the month of June the federal court confirmed the state's school closing as unconstitutional. The school soon re-opened and only two of the nine black students that entered the school in the year of 1957, re-enrolled, those students were Carlotta Walls and Jefferson
The Separate but Equal was a doctrine that stated that services,facilities,and public places could be separated by race as long as other accommodations were equal. This doctrine soon became very controversial; many did not believe in the Separate but equal doctrine because it was not as equal as it portrayed itself to be, especially when it came to wanting to receive a quality education. Many fought to have schools desegregated so that African-Americans could attend school with whites. In the month of May 17,1954 the Supreme court deemed that all laws that established segregation in schools were unconstitutional. But on September 2, 1957 the town of Little Rock, Arkansas would stand against this decision that would …show more content…
U.S Congressman Brook Hayes and the Mayor of Little Rock Woodrow Mann reported to the federal government for help. First by U.S Marshals and later on September 24,1957, Mann would send a telegram to President Eisenhower asking for troops. The troops were sent immediately and the President also federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard, taking them from the governor. The following day the nine students entered the school under the protection of 1,000 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. But there was no protection for what would go on in their lives daily when they went to school .The nine students were still subjected to daily taunts, verbal and physical threats by the white students. One of the girls Melba Patillo had acid thrown into her eyes. But soon things would go from being tense to loosening …show more content…
On May 27 1958, Little Rock Central High School had gone a whole year being integrated. Now there was 601 students graduating with Ernest Green being the first black male to graduate from Little Rock Central High. The faculty and staff stayed determined to put the new law of the land into retrospect. For if harassment continued, amongst the white there would be an acceptance of 100 black students. Even though some of the white students weren't two thrilled on desegregation, they still abode by the law. Soon some of the white students started to look at what was in important and that was their education. So many took upon themselves to work with the black students to help them achieve and receive the same opportunity.
But on August 1958, Faubus would ask the state legislature to pass a law the would allow him to closed public schools and turn them into private school corporations. The following year the law was put into action, and it would soon be recognized as The Lost Years. In the year of 1959 in the month of June the federal court confirmed the state's school closing as unconstitutional. The school soon re-opened and only two of the nine black students that entered the school in the year of 1957, re-enrolled, those students were Carlotta Walls and Jefferson