Left to right: Dorothy Frazier, 13, Minnie Brown, 15, and Thelma Mothershed, 16, wait in a corridor of the U.S. Courthouse at Little Rock, Ark., where they were called to testify at a hearing on the integration problems at Central High School, in 1957.
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of nine Black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine for integrating a high school in 1957 during one of the biggest confrontations of the civil rights movement, died on Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock. She was 83. The students faced angry, racist mobs that first day and soldiers blocked them from entering the school. “The army has come into our city to put nine kids in a school?” she said she remembered thinking. “Did that make any sense? Was this not America?”
It seems like Gov want to strangling their "free will"...
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DeleteLittle Rock Nine was a watershed moment in US history.. racial discrimination was entrenched there, especially in the southern states, but in 1957 this brave group of young black students challenged & broke through the colour barrier which had existed since slavery...by then i was already in love with black music [especially Little Richard, Fats Domino & Chuck Berry] & even though i was only ten years old & living here in ADL, i felt so proud of them...
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