Remember the Nine
- added September 29, 2008
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An interesting article by Graeme Green on the desegregation of one of Americas schools.
"Park Street is quiet today. I walk past neat, sun-baked lawns and rows of houses, the Stars and Stripes waving from porches. One house has an "Obama for President" sign in the front window.
On 4 September 1957, this street in Arkansas's state capital, Little Rock, was noisy, crowded and charged with an atmosphere of violence. Nine young black students were about to start at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School, an impressive-looking building just across the road from where I'm standing. They were met with a thousand-strong mob of angry white locals and soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard, who barred their entry to the school with bayonets. The crisis that followed became one of the most important events in the history of the civil rights movement..."
"Park Street is quiet today. I walk past neat, sun-baked lawns and rows of houses, the Stars and Stripes waving from porches. One house has an "Obama for President" sign in the front window.
On 4 September 1957, this street in Arkansas's state capital, Little Rock, was noisy, crowded and charged with an atmosphere of violence. Nine young black students were about to start at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School, an impressive-looking building just across the road from where I'm standing. They were met with a thousand-strong mob of angry white locals and soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard, who barred their entry to the school with bayonets. The crisis that followed became one of the most important events in the history of the civil rights movement..."
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