Little Rock Nine: by Alex Helfond https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l By: Alex H. Bo H. Alyssa F. and Alexa H. en-us 2016-05-24 12:53:53 UTC 2023-03-07 05:05:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Little Rock Nine https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112503200 Nine black teenagers broke the color line at a public high school in Little Rock Arkansas in September of 1957.

These students voluntarily transferred to this all white high school as a part of the school board plan.

Black schools were often poor, overcrowded and lacked current books and equipment, and these black kids wanted equal rights.

According to one of these black students, "We thought that if they broke through and got into the school others would follow."]]> 2016-05-25 12:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112503200 Orval Faubus https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112504166 Orval Faubus was the governor of Arkansas. He didn't want the nine African Americans to come to the all white school. He felt they were not safe and should be segregated based on skin color, luckily many people did not feel the same way and eventually the students were allowed into the school.]]> 2016-05-25 12:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112504166 Impacts On The Civil Rights Movement: ahelfond https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112505469 The Little Rock Nine event made an impact on the Civil Rights Movement because the nine African Americans that went into Central High School in Arkansas in 1957 made a stand against the racist "rules" against African Americans. 

Many schools in the South didn't allow blacks to go to school with whites and only 6.4% of blacks went to a school with whites.]]> 2016-05-25 12:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112505469 How did this event occur?   https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112506752 Nine black students tried to attend the Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas as about 1,500 white students. Sending the blacks to Central High School was the Little Rock school boards idea. The nine students were chosen based on their good grades and desire to go to school and have equal rights. These nine students lives had been threatened. ]]> 2016-05-25 12:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112506752 The Teens... https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507093 were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals]]> 2016-05-25 12:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507093 The Little Rock Nine's First Attempt at Entering the School https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507179 On the first day that these black students tried to go to the white school they had a group of ministers arranged to walk with them, but one 15 year old girl named Elizabeth Eckford did not get the message that they were going to walk in a group so she began walking to school alone. She was alone and frightened as an angry mob of about 200 students yelled at her. One white women shouted, “Go back to where you came from!”

More than 200 guardsmen were surrounding the school to keep the black students out. Elizabeth and the other eight students were blocked out of the school by the guards and were forced to return home.]]> 2016-05-25 12:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507179 Long term impacts:  https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507913 The Little Rock Nine renowned the symbols of of black courage and seeking racial justice. 
People are no longer forced to attend all white or black schools and they are no longer split up simply because of race. 

]]> 2016-05-25 12:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112507913 The Little Rock Nine's Second Attempt at Entering the School https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112509121 Three weeks later a Federal judge ordered the governor to remove the troops guarding the school and these 9 black students were finally allowed to enter the white school for the first time. 

Upon entering they were mobbed by over 1,000 raging white kids and only about 100 police offices their to control them. Because the black kids safety was in danger the police rushed the children out of the area. One of the kids named Jefferson Thomas remembers hiding under a blanket afraid to even breathe. 

When President Eisenhower heard the news that the mob defied the Federal Law he was furious and he ordered the US Army 101st Airborne Division to escort the nine students to the white school. 

]]> 2016-05-25 13:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112509121 Little Rock Nine Video: ahelfond https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112510039 2016-05-25 13:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112510039 The Little Rock Nine's Third and Final Attempt at Entering the School https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612525 On September 25th, armed soldiers led the blacks into the school for good and 15 year  old Melba Pattillo Beals she described this as an occasion she would remember for the rest of her life. 


For approximately two months the soldiers had to constantly protect the black students in the school and the kids were very angry and scared, but they were willing to fight to recieve a good education. One black student named Carlotta Walls LaNier quotes, “You didn’t know where the next raw egg or rock was coming from”
]]> 2016-05-26 00:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612525 Overview of the Little Rock Nine Event https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612779 The Little Rock Nine successfully integrated Central High and other black students began attending all white schools all across the South. A child would no longer be denied an education because of his or her race. As one man said, “We were fighting for freedom” ]]> 2016-05-26 01:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612779 Example of Segregation Before the Civil Rights Movement https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612985 2016-05-26 01:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112612985 Political cartoon about schools and segregation.  https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681034 2016-05-26 12:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681034 Support From the People After Civil Rights Movement https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681395 2016-05-26 12:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681395 Support of the People https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681511 During this time period many whites did not want black attending the same school as their white children and completely supported segregation. After the Civil Rights Movement many peoples perspectives of segregation changed. As you can see in the graph located to the right many people support diversity of schools in our area. ]]> 2016-05-26 12:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ahelfond/zaorkwq5wt9l/wish/112681511