The Nine

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4.8 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that segregation in the public schools of the nation was unconstitutional. One of the first big tests of that decision came in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine Black children attempted to enroll in the all-white Central High School. They would become known as the "Little Rock Nine.” Several segregationist councils threatened to hold protests at Central High and physically block the black students from entering the school. Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationists on September 4, 1957. The sight of a line of soldiers blocking out the students made national headlines and polarized the nation. On September 24, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army—without its black soldiers—to Little Rock and federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard. As much as it was a momentous occasion in American history, that had ramifications far and wide forever to come, it’s easy to forget that these nine children had to walk into a building full of people that thought their very existence was going to destroy their version of America. It’s easy to forget that the crisis didn’t end with them walking through the doors. These are their stories, in their own words.

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0:50.5	before the current unrest began in our country. We don't want to come off as
0:54.5	taking advantage of a situation, but at the same time it'd be insulting to delay this
0:59.5	episode. I have to warn you, the following contains depictions of racism, abusive actions, and the use of a racial epithet.
1:10.0	On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Brown versus the Board of
1:20.2	Education of Topeka that segregation in the public schools of the nation was unconstitutional.
1:27.5	One of the first big tests of that decision came in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1:32.2	The N-Double ACP had attempted to register black students in previously
1:36.0	all white schools in cities throughout the South, after the Supreme Court decision. In Little Rock,
1:42.1	the school board agreed to comply.
1:44.8	Virgil Blossom, the superintendent, submitted a plan of gradual integration to the School Board
1:49.9	on May 24, 1955, which the board unanimously approved.
1:55.3	The plan would be implemented at the beginning of the 1957 school year.
2:01.0	That fall, nine black children attempted to enroll in the all-white Central High School.
2:07.3	They would become known as the Little Rock Nine.
2:11.6	Several segregationist groups threatened to hold protests at Central High and physically blocked the black students from entering the school.
2:19.0	Governor Orville Fobis deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationist on September. The site of a line of
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