LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 1957. It had been three years since the Supreme Court had declared "separate but equal" in America's public schools unconstitutional, but the decision was met with bitter resistance across the South.
Decades After "little Rock Nine," School Segregation Lingers
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK and ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 09/24/2017 - 10:45pm
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Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. At ...
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Instead, the group, known as The Little Rock Nine, was met by the National Guard blocking the school doors and a mob of angry protesters who didn’t want them there. Now, 70 years after the Brown V.
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The "Little Rock Nine" were the first African American students to attend Little Rock Central High School following Brown v. Board.
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Index ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 implies no segregation (all schools have identical proportions of Black and white students) while 1 implies complete segregation (no Black student attends a school ...
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The landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling may have paved the way for more equal and integrated schools, but fierce – and continued – opposition to integration means the ruling in no way assured ...
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