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Glossary Term – Event

Federal troops sent to Little Rock

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students enrolling in the previously segregated Central High.

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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...