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Teach Us All is the directorial debut of filmmaker Sonia Lowman.The film caught the attention of Ava DuVernay who acquired the film through ARRAY. [5] Teach Us All premiered at the Ford Motor Company Theatre with the National Civil Rights Museum on the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine.
The Ernest Green Story is a 1993 American made-for-television biographical film which follows the true story of Ernest Green (Morris Chestnut) and eight other African-American high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
African-American artist George Hunt was hired to produce a painting of the Little Rock Nine for the event. [33] In November 1998, legislation passed designating Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service, and Central High Museum, Inc., donated their property to the park service.
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who began the integration, or the desegregation, of all white schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. When Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little ...
Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
Kristin Sims Levine (born April 22, 1974) is an American novelist who authored The Lions of Little Rock, a New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize winner. [1] It is a fictional story about friendship based around true historical events of the Little Rock Nine in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ernest Gideon Green (born September 22, 1941) is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green was the first African-American to graduate from the school in 1958.
Carlotta Walls LaNier (née Walls; born December 18, 1942) is the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. She was the first black female to graduate from Central High School.