1. Bianca Schemankewitz LITTLE ROCK NINE

2.  Group of 9 African American students who were the first to enter a previously racially segregated school in Arkansas  Little Rock Central High School  Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals WHO WERE THE LITTLE ROCK NINE?

3.  Brown v. Board of Education, issued on May 17, 1954, called for the desegregation of all schools in the U.S.  The Little Rock School Board agreed to abide by the court’s decision  On May 24, 1955, the Little Rock School Board created the Blossom Plan which called for gradual integration  By 1957, the NAACP had registered these nine students to attend Little Rock Central High  Were selected based on excellent grades and attendance BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION

4.  Segregationist councils threatened to throw protests outside the school and physically block the nine students from entering the building  Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationists  However, in response to this, President Eisenhower sent the 101 st Airborne Division of the United States Army to protect the nine students and enforce integration and put the Arkansas National Guard under federal orders  This was at the request of Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock DISCRIMINATION

5.  Shoving  Kicking  Name calling  Spitting  “2,4,6,8…We don’t want to integrate!”  Melba Patillo  Minnijean Brown OTHER ACTS OF DISCRIMINATION

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