'Little Rock Nine': 60th Anniversary of Central High Integration

Under the guidance of Arkansas College Color Improvement Association, Daisy Gaston Bates, nine black students were in charge of testing the groundbreaking judgment of the US Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education held in 1954 . Apartheid is unconstitutional in American public schools

Under the anger of white students, under the glare of Little Rock 9, they went to Central Highland with the support of 1,200 troops, media cameras and Governor of the apartheid Orval Faubus. Students are Minnijean Brown, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls, Elizabeth Eckford.

Eight students entered together, but her family did not have a phone so he did not reach Eckford. So she arrived alone, this is the way the famous photograph quietly walked towards the entrance of the school when she grabbed the note, because the crowd of crying surrounded her

A few weeks before September 25, Little Rock No. 9 was tried by Daisy Bates, advised, carefully selected. They tried to enter junior high school early, but as threats of violence and bloodshed continued, they could not attend class. Only when President Eisenhower dispatched 1,200 soldiers from the 101th Airbow Corps and kept peace in a small stone town for nine days of research.

However, their lives are very difficult. During the remainder of the grade they faced constant oral and physical harassment - the face of Melba Patillo was sour, Gloria was knocked down the stairs, and the group of girls threw a complete portfolio After the purse, Minnijean Brown was fired for revenge. Please lock her. Brown's mother was even dismissed because he was not beat the pressure to withdraw his daughter from the school.

On May 25, 1958, Ernest Green was the only person out of nine who graduated from Central High School. He was the first African American to graduate to graduate from school. For other students, they will obtain diplomas through communication courses or other high schools.

Little Rock Nine continues to make great achievements in their career, some of which serve in the areas of higher education, mental health and the criminal justice system. President Green Carter served as a deputy secretary of the Ministry of Labor. Pattillo became a reporter for NBC. Brown served as President Bill Clinton at the Interior Ministry and served as Vice Assistant Secretary of Labor Force Diversity

In 1999, President Clinton played an important role in the civil rights movement, so he gave the Little Stone City 9th Games Gold Award. Ten years later, US President Obama invited them to attend the inauguration ceremony.

They became the most famous black student in the United States, and integrated schools that used to be white before. This month, Little Rock celebrates the 60th anniversary of the civil rights movement by commemorating students known as Little Rock Nine including eight students, former president and a speech by the Arkansas Governor Building. For Clinton Carlotta Walls LaNier, anniversary is an opportunity to raise awareness of struggle for racial equality. "Our goal is to inform the people why today's people are sitting in the classroom with people who do not look like them," she said in time. "This is because we succeeded in Central in 60 years ago."

Eight of the nine people are still alive and return to Little Rock on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the first major US campaign on school separation. A day later, some people will speak at the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum in Washington. Now is the time to reflect how much progress the United States has made in the approach to apartheid in education, and in recent years whether progress is stagnating or reversing. According to a survey by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) civil rights program, the proportion of "strongly isolated" black schools tripled in the past 25 years and the project warns that "reorganization" is being brewed . Tricky (76) who was 76, early this month said disastrously: "Which country do not think education of all children is the main value? I think it is worthwhile, there is still violence. "