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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in ... Central High Museum, Inc. held a dedication ceremony in observation of the 40th ...
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who began the integration, or the desegregation, of all white schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. When Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little ...
Teach Us All is the directorial debut of filmmaker Sonia Lowman.The film caught the attention of Ava DuVernay who acquired the film through ARRAY. [5] Teach Us All premiered at the Ford Motor Company Theatre with the National Civil Rights Museum on the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine.
Faubus closed all of the schools in Little Rock in 1958 to try to avoid further integration. Mothershed went out of state to finish her remaining high school classes. The academic credits transferred back to Little Rock, and she ultimately earned her diploma from Central High School. “She was always a fighter,” Davis said of her sister.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A Little Rock Nine legend was laid to rest Saturday. Thelma Mothershed-Wair took her last breath on October 19, on Saturday her funeral services were held at Pulaski Heights ...
A group that integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when it was segregated by race has come out to decry Arkansas barring AP African American studies from counting toward credit for ...
Surviving members of the Little Rock Nine – Black students who were the first to desegregate schools and break the color barrier in Arkansas – said they are “as bewildered as they were ...
On September 24, 2007, a new museum was opened honoring the Little Rock Nine. That same year, HBO produced a documentary film directed by the Renaud Brothers, Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later, which explored the significant changes and continuities within the school since its desegregation.