The Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine were students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School who were African American. The Little Rock Crisis was about the students who were not allowed to go to the school that was a segregated school. This was supported by, Orval Faubus,The Governor of Arkansas.
The nine people who were in the Little Rock Nine were Ernest Green,Elizabeth Eckford,Jefferson Thomas,Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier,Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark,Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo Beals. Their entrance into the school in 1957 sparked a nationwide crisis.The governor called the Arkansas National Guard to stop the Nine from entering.On September 4, 1957 Nine attempted to enter …show more content…
Eisenhower called out 1,200 members of the U.S. Army’s 101st first Airborne Division and put the Arkansas National Guard under federal orders. On September 25, 1957, under all federal troops escort, the Nine were all escorted back into Central for their first full day of school.
J. LaBeau 3 Melba Pattillo later wrote, “After three full days inside Central, I know that integration is a much bigger and better word than I thought.” But they returned to school every single day to persist in obtaining an equal education.
After everyone in the Nine suffered repeated harassment, like kicking, shoving, and lots of name calling, the military started to assigned guards to escort them to their classes. The Guards could not go everywhere with the students. The harassment continued in places such as restrooms and locker rooms.
Although everyone from the Nine endured verbal and physical harassment during the whole year at Central, Minnijean Brown was the only one that could respond; she was first suspended and then was expelled for retaliating against the daily torment by dropping her lunch tray along with a bowl of chili on two white boys and later, by referring to a white girl who hit her as “white trash. All the rest of the eight students remained at Central until the end of the school
The nine people who were in the Little Rock Nine were Ernest Green,Elizabeth Eckford,Jefferson Thomas,Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier,Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark,Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo Beals. Their entrance into the school in 1957 sparked a nationwide crisis.The governor called the Arkansas National Guard to stop the Nine from entering.On September 4, 1957 Nine attempted to enter …show more content…
Eisenhower called out 1,200 members of the U.S. Army’s 101st first Airborne Division and put the Arkansas National Guard under federal orders. On September 25, 1957, under all federal troops escort, the Nine were all escorted back into Central for their first full day of school.
J. LaBeau 3 Melba Pattillo later wrote, “After three full days inside Central, I know that integration is a much bigger and better word than I thought.” But they returned to school every single day to persist in obtaining an equal education.
After everyone in the Nine suffered repeated harassment, like kicking, shoving, and lots of name calling, the military started to assigned guards to escort them to their classes. The Guards could not go everywhere with the students. The harassment continued in places such as restrooms and locker rooms.
Although everyone from the Nine endured verbal and physical harassment during the whole year at Central, Minnijean Brown was the only one that could respond; she was first suspended and then was expelled for retaliating against the daily torment by dropping her lunch tray along with a bowl of chili on two white boys and later, by referring to a white girl who hit her as “white trash. All the rest of the eight students remained at Central until the end of the school