Melba Pattillo Beals, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown Trickey and Thelma Mothershed Wair.
Today, they are nine professionals in their mid-60s, the first blacks to attend all-white Central High School in 1957. "Their enrollment sparked resistance and a constitutional crisis that would advance civil rights in America."
[Little Rock] [integration] [civil rights] [constitution] [constitutional crisis] [America]
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
The Little Rock Nine:
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