Module 2- The Civil Rights Movement: Places

I think that the volunteers had gotten scared and didn’t want to put their lives at risk. I could see where they came from because at that time people were subjecting black people more than anything. 

  President Eisenhower sent army Troops to help with the little rock nine. On September 25th, 1957, the little rick nine had attended their first day of school for a full day.

Central High School was integrated by federal troops. “On June 3rd, 1958, Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Lile Rock’s Central High School. The impact of the events in Little Rock was profound: it showed that African American citizens could expect their Constitutional rights to be upheld in courts.” 

“It was conceived as an outpouring of the deep feeling of millions of white and colored American citizens that the time has come for the Congress of that government, to grant and guarantee complete equality in citizenship of the Negro minority of our population.”

“In a neighborhood dispute there may be stunts, rough words and even hot insults; but when a whole people speak to its government, the dialogue and the action must be on a level reflecting the worth of that people and the responsibility of that government." 

 It could’ve formed a healthy relationship between white and black people. They had come calmly but also self-aware of the situation and decided to handle it in a good matter. 

The event that occurred is the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.

The little rock nine students challenged racial segregation for black people's education.

The strategy used nonviolent acts to stand up for black people's education, and that others cannot dictate what one another wants.