THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
THE Little Rock Nine - BTAAV/Iforcolor
Slide Presentation by Dale Ricardo Shields
Music by Cory Henry *(I do not own rights to this music)
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-White Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. It drew national attention to the civil rights movement.
Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls had been recruited by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, an influential African American newspaper.
Daisy Bates and others from the Arkansas NAACP carefully vetted the group of students and determined they all possessed the strength and determination to face the resistance they would encounter. In the weeks prior to the start of the new school year, the students participated in intensive counseling sessions guiding them on what to expect once classes began and how to respond to anticipated hostile situations.
Cory Henry "The Revival Project"
https://www.coryhenrymusic.com
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
Educational purposes only.
History by any means necessary ...
Music
SONG
He Has Made Me Glad (I Will Enter His Gates) (Live)
ARTIST
ALBUM
The Revival (Live)
Slide Presentation by Dale Ricardo Shields
Music by Cory Henry *(I do not own rights to this music)
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-White Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. It drew national attention to the civil rights movement.
Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls had been recruited by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, an influential African American newspaper.
Daisy Bates and others from the Arkansas NAACP carefully vetted the group of students and determined they all possessed the strength and determination to face the resistance they would encounter. In the weeks prior to the start of the new school year, the students participated in intensive counseling sessions guiding them on what to expect once classes began and how to respond to anticipated hostile situations.
Cory Henry "The Revival Project"
https://www.coryhenrymusic.com
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
Educational purposes only.
History by any means necessary ...
Music
SONG
He Has Made Me Glad (I Will Enter His Gates) (Live)
ARTIST
ALBUM
The Revival (Live)
