PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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9 white students who went to a black school.
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9 black students who sat at a lunch counter.
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9 black students who went to a white school.
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9 Civil Rights protests.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Significance: In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine” to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The nine were Thelma Mothershed, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Beals, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, and Ernest Green.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Board of Education, of all that was in store for our nation in the years to come. The “Little Rock Nine, ” as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock’s Central High School.