Arkansas: The Lost Year with Bethanie Garcia

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon tells the story of the Little Rock Nine to her friend and successful blogger and podcast host, Bethanie Garcia. At the end of the 1950s, following the Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate schools, the town of Little Rock was nothing short of tumultuous, when nine black students integrated the public high school. Sharon details the complex and outrageous occurrences that happened in Little Rock during those years, including the arrival of the National Guard to block the Little Rock Nine from entering, followed by the governor’s order to close all Little Rock schools rather than integrate. Sharon takes Bethanie along a wild, heartbreaking and frustrating ride through what is now known as “the lost year” in civil rights history.

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0:00.0	You are here again and I am so glad that you are. This is an episode called The Lost Year and it is a story that I think is going to bowl you over.
0:11.0	You probably will have heard of a few events that happened but all of the other
0:15.9	things are definitely not normally taught in history classrooms. These are the
0:21.6	kind of things that you are going to feel like dang I did not know that and I
0:26.2	cannot imagine that happening today chatting with my friend Bethany Garcia who runs a fascinating
0:32.1	Instagram account called the Garcia diaries.
0:35.0	Let's just dive in. Let's get into the lost year.
0:39.0	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:45.0	This is my friend Bethany Garcia everybody.
0:48.0	Bethany, what do you do?
0:50.0	I have a lot of children.
0:51.0	We have an infield. So I have a lot of children. We have a infield. So I have five kids. I'm a blogger and I'm located in Arizona and we share real raw motherhood and family and marriage and anything you can think of
1:06.8	unfiltered that's what we do. I love it. It's such a needed breath of fresh air to
1:12.1	that just pretend that your life is airbrushed and that your children behave themselves 100% of the time and that you always have high heels on and hard pants. You know like who lives that way? Well, okay, I have a story that I want to tell you.
1:27.0	This would blow your mind. The fact that this actually happened, still mind-blowing, but if you think about it happening today, it's literally like,
1:35.6	poo! I cannot imagine. I'm ready. You cannot imagine. You know what an executive order is? You've probably been following me for a while. you know what an executive order is.
1:42.8	You've probably been following me for a while.
1:44.6	You know what that is.
1:45.5	I want to talk today about executive order 10730.
1:51.6	Do you have that one memorized? No, I'm not that one. Oh, 10,730. Oh, I only
1:59.4	memorized up to 9,999. I don't know that one. Okay, have you heard of the Supreme Court case, Brown
2:07.7	versus Board of Education? Yes. Quick refresher for everybody who is not familiar. That was the Supreme Court case
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