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/110 Little Rock Nine


 * 1) ====//__One of the most famous stories of integration was the story of The Little Rock Nine.__//====
 * 2) ====//__Little Rock Nine were the nine African-American kids involved in the desegration of little rock central High School.__//====
 * 3) ====//__On the first day of school an angry mob was waiting for 9 African-American students.T__////__he mob refused to let the African-American students in the school.The president had to send army jeeps to protect the African-American students from the mob.Each student was assigned a personal guard.__//====
 * 4) ====//__In the Little Rock Nine there was six African-American girls and three African-American boys.Ernest Green was the oldest of the group.__//====
 * 5) ==== **Progress was slow and accompanied by danger, but African Americans continued to fight for their rights.** ====
 * 6) ==== **For the Little Rock Nine, the battle was only beginning. Throughout the school year, they faced physical and verbal assaults from white students, as well as death threats against themselves, their families, and other members of the black community.** ====
 * 7) ==== **In the summer of 1957, the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, made plans to desegregate its public schools.** ====
 * 8) ==== **It had already desegregated its public buses, as well as its zoo, library and parks system.** ====
 * 9) ==== **Blacks had been appointed to state boards and elected to local office.** ====
 * 10) ====On September 2, the night before school was to start, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the state's National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School and prevent any black students from entering in order to protect citizens and property from possible violence by protesters he claimed were headed in caravans toward Little Rock.11. A federal judge granted an injunction against the Governor's use of National Guard troops to prevent integration and they were withdrawn on September 20.12.====
 * 11) ====When school resumed on Monday, September 23, Central High was surrounded by Little Rock policemen. About 1,000 people gathered in front of the school.====
 * 12) ====The police escorted the nine black students to a side door where they quietly entered the building as classes were to begin.====
 * 13) ====When the mob learned the blacks were inside, they began to challenge the police and surge toward the school with shouts and threats. Fearful the police would be unable to control the crowd, the school administration moved the black students out a side door before noon.13. U.S. Congressman Brooks Hays and Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann asked the federal government for help, first in the form of U.S. marshals.====
 * 14) ====Finally, on September 24, Mann sent a telegram to President Eisenhower requesting troops. They were dispatched that day and the President also federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard, taking it away from the Governor.====
 * 15) ====1On September 25, 1957, the nine black students entered the school under the protection of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. In September, 1997, the events of 40 years ago were remembered with a series of significant events in the city of Little Rock. Mayor Jim Dailey appointed the Central High 40th Anniversary Commission to spearhead the project.====
 * 16) On May 24, 1955, the Little Rock School Board adopted a plan for gradual integration, known as the Blossom Plan (also known as the Little Rock Phase Program). The plan called for desegregation to begin in the fall of 1957 at Central and filter down to the lower grades over the next six years. Under the plan, students would be permitted to transfer from any school where their race was in the minority, thus ensuring that the black schools would remain racially segregated, because many people believed that few, if any, white students would opt to attend predominantly black schools. Federal courts upheld the Blossom Plan in response to a lawsuit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP]


 * 1) Why do you think that the white people didn't let Little Rock nine in their school?
 * 2) If you would put in the same position as Little Rock NIne would you take a stand? Why or Why not?
 * 3) What emotions do you think Little Rock Nine had when they were going to take a stand? Why?
 * 4) When they were treated unfarily why do you think they stayed?
 * 5) If little rock nine didn't do what they did what do you think life would be like right now? Why?