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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis , in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus , the Governor of Arkansas .
On May 30 about 400 to 500 people took part in a protest on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol. [16] During the evening, protesters clashed with police as protesters shot fireworks at police, police fired tear gas at protesters, some windows were broken in businesses across the street, and Interstate 630 was briefly blocked on two ...
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and 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 the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Storied Little Rock Central High School, cited by Sarah Huckabee Sanders' campaign as formative in her rise to the Arkansas governor's mansion, was the site Friday of a student walkout to protest ...
Bates's memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir, published in 1962, [20] chronicles her experiences as a civil rights activist during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The book provides a firsthand account of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students who integrated the school in ...
A protest in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 2. On May 30, a protest in Raleigh named "A National Day of Action — Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and lives cut short by Raleigh and Durham police departments," was created. [127] [128] On May 30, protesters in Charlotte blocked traffic on Interstate 277. The police fired ...
Thelma Mothershed-Wair (née Mothershed; November 29, 1940 – October 19, 2024) was an American activist who was the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine group, who attended Little Rock's Central High School following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education court case.
White parents rally against integrating Little Rock's schools in August 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine students who attended segregated black high schools in Little Rock, the capital of the state of Arkansas. They each volunteered when the NAACP and the national civil rights movement obtained federal court orders to integrate ...