Little Rock Nine share their stories and compare struggles to today

Arizona's Little Rock (KTHV) - The eight surviving Little Rock Nine members recognize how much change they have and they still have a long way to go

Ninety years ago, nine black students entered Xiaoshicheng junior high school in full white. The eight members who survived gave a speech on the struggle they faced 60 years ago.

Carlotta Wall LaNier says: "I went to high school every day 1.6 km (1 mile) from black middle school, I got this opportunity, I got the opportunity to take the crowd there, but I ignored them Ignorance is my opinion. "

Ernest Green reminds me of when he first met all the soldiers who are outside the center of Little Rock. He said that there is an electric light in his head, he not only went to the class, but also knew that more important things had happened.

"There is a sound on your colored face, you can say it, you can come to the negotiation table and participate in the discussion," Dr. Melba Pattilo Beals said It was. "When I was young, I did not have that privilege, we were still sitting behind the bus, I drank a colored fountain, we have no right to say anything Well, I guess we have taken the first step. "

Green said: "We dream, this is the reason the dreamer can run this country is great."

The story that the apartheid crisis was abolished in Little Rock in 1957 and the talk of the ninth grader of the middle school Little Rock are widely documented. The role of Governor Oval Fawbass and closing the school rather than integrating the story of the lost year from 1958 to 1959. Also, groundbreaking Cooper v. Aaron (1958) emphasizes the story of the Supreme Court ruling and the Women's Emergency Committee (WEC), which decides to open a school between our schools to stop this shameless cleaning (STOP) Please continue with the committee of our isolated school (CROSS). Little Rock School resumed comprehensively in August 1959

The 90's "Little Stone City Nine" will be the first African-American student to enter the Central High School of Little Rock. Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Board of Little Rock School promised to voluntarily cancel school apartheid. This idea is explosive for the community and like all the other countries in the south it is full of anger and bitterness. After 16 days, the federal judge ordered the dismissal of the National Guard. On September 23, Little Rock Nine tried to enter the school again. Little Rock police guided the side door, another angry crowd gathered and tried to raise the Central Highlands. School officials sent teenagers to their homes due to concerns about the lives of nine students. But they took lessons for about three hours.

In September 1957, nine African American students attended the first day of Xiaoyancheng middle school, and their overall student population is Caucasian. When they were called Little Rock Nine, they blocked the entrance to the school and met a number of white mobs and soldiers from the Arkansas State Guard sent by Arkansas Governor Oval Eugene Forbes. The next 18th day of Pres. Mr. Forws' President Dwight D. Eisenhower and mayor of Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann talked about the situation. Little Rock 9 returned to September 23, but was attacked violently. The students returned home on 25th September and returned home after being protected by American soldiers. Students were constantly harassed, but 8 out of nine students completed their academic year. The overall confrontation not only noticed the attention of American citizenship, but also attracted attention to the struggle between federal and state power.