LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nine Black teenagers who integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in September 1957 all went on to seek higher education. Eight remain alive. This combination of file photos (left) shows the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through […]
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AP Was There: Lawyers Argue over Separate but Equal Doctrine
WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: Sixty years ago, nine Black students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, putting to test a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The court ordered all public schools to act swiftly, integrating with deliberate speed. But it was an […]
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‘Little Rock Nine’ Members Mark School’s 1957 Desegregation
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of the nine Black students who famously integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 says the images of a White supremacist rally in Virginia last month immediately reminded her of the mobs she faced 60 years ago. Surviving members of the Little Rock Nine, the students who […]