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Little Rock 9
Abby, Adam, Cyrus, Sam, Zoe
Slide2Video
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
Slide3Context
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American high school students, who were one of the first to integrate into Little Rocks all white School who
were recruited by Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP.
As the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Martin Luther King wrote to President Dwight D. Eisenhower requesting the nine students to attend Little Rock.
This event was supposed to test a 1954 US supreme court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional (Brown Vs Board of Education).
Due to the
Brown Vs Board of Education schools all over started to desegregate
Slide4Key events
In September 1957 The Little Rock Nine went to Little Rock Central High School, an angry mob of white people verbally harassed them.
The Governor, Orval Faubus, opposed desegregation and sent 270 soldiers of Arkansas National guard to stop them from going in.
Faubus ignored President Eisenhower which lead Eisenhower to bring in federal troops to protect the Little Rock nine from violent/ crude white mobs
Slide5Significance
The main impact that the Little Rock Nine had on civil rights was that the school they had attended/graduated from was an all white school; they had faced major discrimination.
Federal gov. overruled state gov. which faced a lot of criticism and raised questions about the power of federal government
Slide6Federal intervention
Yes!! Federal intervention!!!!!!
Segregation is wrong
When states ignore/resist federal laws, the president has the power to intervene
Use military force to stop violence against little rock nine
If laws not upheld, there could be anarchy which damages country’s reputation
NO Federal intervention!!!
States should control speed of integration
Plessy v Ferguson (1896), segregation is fine if the facilities are equal
Supreme court can’t make laws, only congress
Schools are under state power
Slide7Perspectives
Daisy Bates, a Civil Rights activist who gathered students that would attend Little Rock High, believed that the children would serve as powerful symbols against segregation
MLK Jr. told President Eisenhower that lack of response from the government would “set the process of integration back 50 years”
Although
Ike
did not agree with court mandated segregation, he felt a constitutional obligation to uphold the ruling
Most Southern whites did not believe in desegregation and integrating schools in the south
The governor of Little Rock, Orval Faubus, believed that activists promoted concern and spread wild rumors to integrate schools at any price
The CCC, an organization that aimed to prevent desegregation, believed that the NAACP was working with Communists to undermine the “Southern way of life”
Slide8Questions
What is the significance of Eisenhower directing military force to allow the little rock nine to go to school?
Brown vs Board of education ruling was in 1954, and little rock nine was in 1957, why do you think it took so long for them to desegregate schools even though after 1954 segregated schools were illegal?
How does the amount of violence from each side speak to the civil rights movement at the time and the stereotypes of each side?
Slide9Works cited
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-the-first-step-in-the-desegregation-of-americas-schools
https://online.infobase.com/Article/Details/1009473?q=little%20rock%20nine
http://sydneyschulenberg.weebly.com/importance.html
http://crdl.usg.edu/events/little_rock_integration/?Welcome
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/little-rock-school-desegregation
https://library-eb-com.ezproxy.kcls.org/levels/referencecenter/article/Little-Rock-Nine/630404