Essay
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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Glossary Term – Organization
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students—Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals—who integrated the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
Teaching Resource
Plessy v. Ferguson
Introduction
People who commit crimes are often thought to be “bad” people or people who are engaged in deleterious behavior. This lesson looks at two separate crimes in order to frame law-breaking as a sometimes more complex issue. The first crime that students will examine is that of Homer Plessy, who violated Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and whose appeal of his arrest to the Supreme Court resulted in the codification of the "separate but equal" laws that were enacted in many states. The second crime that students...
Teaching Resource
First Day of Integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
Sources
Students Entering School Building, National Park Service
Book: Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1962), or online at Civil Rights Teaching
Background Information
On the first day of integration at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, angry mobs protested outside the school. Eight of the Little Rock Nine, the African...