Little Rock Nine Member Ernest Green on Creating an Atmosphere of Change

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Ernest Green about his experience as one of the first African-American students to integrate at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, why we should strive to disprove backwards thinking, how we must change as a country, and more.

Ernest Green is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green was the first African-American to graduate from the school in 1958. In 1999, he and the other members of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton.

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0:31.9	Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging
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1:01.0	Hey, everyone. It's Ryan holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast several months ago
1:07.3	I got this delightful email from a woman named McKenzie green
1:11.2	She said hi Ryan. I wanted to thank you. I took your stoicism 101 course and I even got to ask your question
1:16.7	Prior to getting into stoicism
1:18.7	I thought it was just something for white dudes in tech. This is what she's saying
1:22.8	She said she listened to various interviews
1:24.4	We had with women where we talked about women's role in the old West for instance
1:28.5	Then we talked about parallels between Epictetus and Frederick Douglass and she said I started to see the stoicism of Jackie Robinson Harriet Tubman
1:37.2	Oprah and others and then she said and I saw it in my father a
1:40.6	Member of the Little Rock 9 and I started to see the stoic principles in practice besides white dudes in Silicon Valley
1:47.0	I was so grateful to get this email because stoicism is not just for white dudes in tech as you know and as I deeply believe
1:56.2	But I was just so surprised and excited to get an email from the daughter of someone who was in the Little Rock 9
2:04.4	The Little Rock 9 being the nine young black men and women who integrated Little Rock Central High School in the mid in the mid to late
2:13.8	1950s as part of the the response to the ruling of Brown v Board of Education the first one of the first major
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