~They fought for their right to not have to be in a separated school which drew national attention.

~ The students had to have guards walking them class to class around the school for their safety once they got into the school.

~ They were dubbed the “Little Rock Nine” by journalists, who covered the crisis that began when a white mob shouted racial slurs, threats and obscenities at the students as they walked to school.

~ Most of the nine eventually transferred to other high schools, with only three staying at Central High School until graduation. One earned her diploma through correspondence courses at Central.

~ Each of them went on to successful lives and careers, with most earning college and advanced degrees. All but Thomas, who died in 2010, are still alive.

~ Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard Sept. 24, 1957, and sent 1,200 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to begin escorting the students into the school.

~ In a televised address from the White House, the president said, “Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

~ He became the first African American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School.

~ An active member of the community from an early age, Green regularly attended church and was involved in the Boy Scouts, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout.

~ After nearly a week of this racist bullying, it finally went too far. As Brown was about to enter her homeroom, one of the girls threw a purse full of combination locks and struck her in the head. Responding to this painful assault, Brown threw down the purse and said, “Leave me alone, white trash.”

~ Overall, the students were treated as less than human beings every day and did their best to endure it and finish school.

~ The 15-year-old student was spat on, yelled at, threatened, and yet she kept her cool and never reacted to the racial inequality she went through.

~ She told her story in her memoir, “The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Little Rock Central High.” She said she believed that racial reconciliation was possible “if we have honestly acknowledged our painful but shared past.”

(womenshistory.org)

~ 9 Things You May Not Know About the Little Rock Nine · National Parks Conservation Association (npca.org)

~ May 27, 1958: Ernest Green Graduates from Little Rock - Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org)

~ 1957: Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine tried to enter school - Mississippi Today

• When the nine black students started to attend Central High little rock most of the students and teachers made it their mission to make those 9 black students life a living hell while attending Central high little rock.

• They had to deal with angry crowds shouting slures, violent, angry mobs and physical attacks by their white classmates.

• When going to school they had to be escorted by soldiers because there was so much people in the school and out outside that wanted to see their demise .

• They also had to go through the National guard just to enter the building.

• Governor Faubus was also opposed to the nine students going to Little rock.

• He also was those 9 students biggest obstacle to face.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/05/20/she-was-1-of-9-black-students-at-an-all-white-school-at-76-gloria-ray-karlmark-is-still-writing-her-own-history/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/05/20/she-was-1-of-9-black-students-at-an-all-white-school-at-76-gloria-ray-karlmark-is-still-writing-her-own-history/

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-little-rock-nine

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PPP-1999-book2/PPP-1999-book2-doc-pg2028#:~:text=The%20Congressional%20Gold%20Medals%20were,as%20the%20Little%20Rock%20Nine.

• People that want to visit they would have to schedule a ranger led program.

• For the people that don’t make an appointment they would only be able to walk up the steps.

• She is sharing her experience and her story to kids in schools all over Sweden.

• Gloria standpoint on the future is that the world isn't progressing.

• The other 6 went and graduated somewhere else.

• There are others that left and drop out of Little Rock.