The little rock nine biography of barack
Ernest green the little rock nine!
Desegregation of Schools
In its Brown v.
The little rock nine biography of barack
Board of Education of Topeka decision, issued May 17, , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of America’s public schools was unconstitutional.
Until the court’s decision, many states across the nation had mandatory segregation laws, or Jim Crow laws, requiring African American and white children to attend separate schools.
Resistance to the ruling was so widespread that the court issued a second decision in , known as Brown II, ordering school districts to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”
Brown v. Board of Education
Little Rock Central High School
In response to the Brown decisions and pressure from the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Little Rock, Arkansas, school board adopted a plan for gradual integration of its schools.
The first institutions to integrate would be the high schools, beginning in September Among these was Little Rock Central High Schoo