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| Author | : Eileen Lucas |
| File Size | : 55,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : LernerClassroom |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 January 2011 |
| ISBN | : 9780761371182 |
| Pages | : 52 pages |
The story of the 1957 desegregation of a Little Rock school includes a script for readers' theater.
The story of the 1957 desegregation of a Little Rock school includes a script for readers' theater.
Get BookUntil 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, and even used separate drinking fountains. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the laws that kept people apart.
Get BookIn fall of 1957, nine black students approached the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine, were testing a 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation illegal. Their actions led to a standoff, with the state National Guard ordered to bar
Get BookEven though segregation had been ruled as unlawful, integration of Southern schools proved to be a dangerous matter. Provided here is an astute account of the violence, threats, and terror the first integrated African American students faced as they forged the way for the acceptance and equal treatment of all
Get BookTwo boys in Little Rock get caught up in the storm of the struggle over public school integration.
Get BookUsing the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Get Book“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School “Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated Press When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls
Get BookThis resource investigates the choices made by the Little Rock Nine and others in the Little Rock community during the civil rights movement during efforts to desegregate Central High School in 1957.
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