Personal Narrative: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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The school year of 1957 is a year that no one would forget. I was going to start my junior year at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. Rumors had been surfacing that Central High was going to become an integrated school. I didn’t believe the rumors though because the governor, Orval Faubus, was completely against integration. I woke up on the first day of school and it seemed to be as normal as any other day, but that quickly changed.

Three years earlier the court outlawed segregation in schools in the Brown vs. Board of Education trial. Still, there were very few schools in the deep south that were integrated. I didn’t see anything wrong with white and black students going to the same school, but many students and their families at Central felt differently. …show more content…
Standing in front of the school was the National Guard, but I was confused as to why they were there. I heard whispers in the crowd that Orval Faubus had called the National Guard to prevent African American students from coming to Central. I knew that any student had the right to go to any school of their choice, but with the National Guard at the school I knew that wasn’t going to happen. I saw the first African American student walk up to the front of the school, but just as everyone expected, she was not allowed in. One of the members of the National Guard escorted her around to the back of the building. As she was walking by all the students, some started yelling racial comments and spat on her. Eight more African American students came up to the building, but just like the first, they were all brought around the

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