In 1957, the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance while integrating Central High School. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent the 101st Airborne to protect the students and ...
You’ve probably seen the photo: AnAfrican American girl walks to school, her eyes shielded by sunglasses. She is surrounded by a hateful crowd of angry white people, including a girl caught mid-jeer, ...
In 1957, Terrence Roberts was one of nine Black students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Sixty-nine years later, Roberts thinks "we have not reached that point where everybody in this ...