Topic > The Little Rock Nine - 596

The Little Rock Nine movement was created by a group of African Americans who attend Little Rock Central High School. Those who were among the African Americans were treated badly and harshly when they were the only blacks attending the schools. When it was their first day to show up at racism school they were yelled at, cursed at, and even called the worst name whites could call blacks was Negro. They recently had an issue with the Little Rock crisis where as the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus was standing right at the doors and was also the one who made sure the African American didn't even set foot in their only white school, But this soon brought a case to the brown court against the Board of Education located in Topeka, Kansas on May 17, 1954. The United States Supreme Court made sure they erased all the hatred towards the African Americans attending a single white school, so the law made sure that schools across the nation could accept not only whites but African Americans as well. Throughout Kansas many people did not agree with the law passed, but...