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Vor 4 Tagen · Little Rock Nine, group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. The group became the center of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the United States, and their actions provoked intense national debate about civil rights.
Vor einem Tag · 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.
- May 17, 1954 – August 1, 1968
- United States
Vor 6 Tagen · She and her husband worked closely with other members of the Little Rock branch as the national strategy of the NAACP shifted in the 1950s from advocating a position of equal funding for segregated programs to outright racial integration.
25. Apr. 2024 · Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954. This collection includes scrapbooks focused on Cartwright's involvement with race relations in Little Rock (Pulaski County), and particularly to the Little Rock Central High Integration Crisis.
Vor 2 Tagen · Kirk, John A. "The Little Rock Crisis and Postwar Black Activism in Arkansas" Arkansas Historical Quarterly. (2007) 66#2 pp 224–242. Covers 1920 to 1959. Kusmer, Kenneth L. 1978. A ghetto takes shape: Black Cleveland, 1870–1930. Meier, August, and David Lewis. 1959. "History of the Negro upper class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890–1958."
Vor einem Tag · The school board of Little Rock, Arkansas created a federal court-approved plan for desegregation, with the program to begin implementation at Little Rock Central High School. Fearing that desegregation would complicate his re-election efforts, Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the National Guard to prevent nine black students, known as the " Little Rock Nine ," from entering Central High.
24. Apr. 2024 · In Little Rock, the open defiance of desegregation in public schools was obvious. Only 16.7 percent of Black students attended integrated schools by the mid-1960s. By 1976, Black students constituted the majority of the Little Rock public school population. In the 1980s, the figure was at about seventy percent as white parents fled ...
