Little Rock Nine Research Paper

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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High school in 1957. It was in September. Before the members transferred to Little Rock Nine, they attended Horace Man High school.
The environment they lived in was followed by little rock crisis. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The U.S Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S, 483, on May 17, 1954. Tied to the 14th Amendment, the decision declared all laws of segregation at schools, to be constitutional and it’s called for the
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Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate Little Rock Central High school. That’s how those nine brave African American kids became Little Rock Nine. They went through so much, yet they were still brave enough to stand their grounds. They had to go through riots of angry white people every day, for them to just enter the school. They got hit, pushed, spit on, got called bad names. For example, the main words are, “nigger, Negros, nigga.” The Little Rock Nine members put up with so much disrespect, so all African Americans can receive the education they need. Best of all they did everything violence free. They could’ve did everything full of violence, but they did it all violence free. They could’ve talked back, they could’ve even fought back, but they didn’t they just walked in the school like they was supposed to and did what they had to do. Little Rock Nine were great leaders for the African Americans education movement… They were