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L. Alex Wilson, the editor and general manager of the Tri-State Defender of Memphis, Tenn, is shoved by an angry mob of white people on Sept. 23, 1957, near Little Rock Central High School in ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in September 1957 all went on to seek higher education. Eight remain alive. While they're most ...
In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been ... they were met with a racist mob of white students as well as about 270 soldiers who barred the ...
Thelma Mothershed-Wair, who has died aged 83, was one of the nine black students who in 1957 had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division through jeering mobs at Little Rock Central High ...
Melba Patillo Beals remembered “bombs in the air, bullets through windows, mobs on the ... them entry into Central High School,” he said. “In perpetuity, the Little Rock Nine are keeping ...
The fire chief refused to institute mob control measures ... 24, 1957, the hostile crowds outside Central High showed no signs of dissipating and the situation had become dire. Running out of options ...
Under the glare of an angry mob of white students, 1,200 armed soldiers, media cameras and pro-segregationist governor Orval Faubus, the Little Rock Nine made their way to Central High.
The school is a civil rights landmark and Sanders' alma mater. Storied Little Rock Central High School, cited by Sarah Huckabee Sanders' campaign as formative in her rise to the Arkansas governor ...