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Little Rock Nine

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 15:47:22 UTC

The Little Rock Nine were 9 African American students who fought to have the same education as white students. They were backed and supported by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower sent federal troops to the Central High School and drove them to the school on the first day and stayed with them there until November.

Little Rock Nine

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 16:03:23 UTC

This Article is more fact-forward, showing the dates that they wanted to enter the school and how the Little Rock Nine students were harassed by the white students.

Daisy Bates

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 16:15:53 UTC

This article is about how the Little Rock Nine dealt with all the harassment and how Daisy Bates was the President of the Arkansas NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and they sued the Little Rock School Board and how she took the Little Rock Nine under her wing and preparing them for the violence they would come across.

The Living Rock Nine

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 16:44:36 UTC

7 of the Little Rock students are still living and are Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford. Ernest Green, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, and Carlotta Walls are all still living and continue to live on, and are doing a great job, all having successful careers and thriving.

The Little Rock Nine

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 16:52:14 UTC

There are two members of the Little Rock Nine who are no longer living. Thelma Mothershed died at the age of 83 and was a teacher. She died in 2024, and she was the oldest member of the Little Rock Nine. The other member of the Little Rock Nine is Jefferson Thomas. He died in 2010 at the age of 67, and he lost his fight to cancer, and was the youngest of the Little Rock Nine.

NAACP

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 17:12:28 UTC

The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This group still exists and shows that it is important that they are trying to erase racial prejudice. They have helped with the W.E.B. Du Bois Trail and helped in the Little Rock Nine. This is where Daisy Bates was from, and she helped the Little Rock Nine in most of this. She was able to sue the school to be able to get them to go to the school they needed to go to.

Work Cited

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 17:39:05 UTC

“Little Rock Nine.” National Women’s History Museum, www.womenshistory.org/resources/general/little-rock-nine. Accessed 15 June 2025.

The Little Rock Nine | National Museum of African American History and Culture, nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/little-rock-nine. Accessed 15 June 2025.

“Little Rock Nine.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, 28 May 2025, www.history.com/articles/central-high-school-integration.

Weingartner, J. (2023, September 14). The Little Rock Nine: Connecting 1957 to Today | Facing History & Ourselves. Www.facinghistory.org. https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/little-rock-nine-connecting-1957-today

Jaynes, G. D. (2018). Little Rock Nine | Names, Facts, & Segregation. In Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Little-Rock-Nine

Dillard, C. (2019, February 6). Beyond the Little Rock Nine. Learning for Justice. https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/beyond-the-little-rock-nine

Essay: How The Little Rock Nine Is Important Now

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-15 18:07:45 UTC

In 1957, the Little Rock Nine students were a group of nine African American students who had the bravery to go to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their enrollment at the school was after the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education Arkansas resisted integration.

When the students made it to the school, they were immediately surrounded by angry mobs and were blocked by the Arkansas National Guard. This became so serious that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had to send federal troops to protect the students and enforce the law. The Little Rock Nine were finally able to attend classes even though they still had to deal with violence and harassment. These actions of the Little Rock Nine were important because their courage helped push the country to take steps toward ending segregation. Today, teachers use this to have discussions about racism and how students can make a difference in their communities. This lesson of the Little Rock Nine shows us that the fight for equality is not only the fight we need to make in history, but it is something that we have to continue to work toward.

Little Rock Nine Then and Now

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-16 19:55:02 UTC

This article explores the parallels between the events of the Little Rock Nine and current developments. In the 2023-2024 school year, the state was requiring that the graduates not graduate if they did not take and pass an AP African American History class. They are waiving a 98-dollar test fee for the students so that they could take the class and be able to succeed in the class with learning about what was happening in their state without having to pay for a test that was not required the year before.

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-16 20:05:35 UTC

This Article explores the fact that the Little Rock Nine students stayed home while President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Governor Faubus, and Little Rock's Mayor all sat down to figure out a way to make it safe for these nine students to go to school, get an education, and not get hurt in the process it took them 18 days to come up with a plan. They came up with the plan to send them with reinforced backup.

Current Things About The Little Rock Nine

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-16 20:57:30 UTC

Some things that they talk about in this article are that they are using the events of the Little Rock Nine to promote this horrible thing that occurred, and flip it to a positive, and teachers are teaching this to show their students that you can make your voice heard if you have a strong enough backbone and willingness to do so.

Pain and suffering before and after

tbaker13_1 — 2025-06-16 21:07:44 UTC

This article hones in on the fact that this horrible and disgusting harassment and threatening, and beating up of African Americans before and after, and still currently. It is a shame. It shows that people are cruel and some are downright evil.