Little Rock

It was a morning on a September 25, 1957 in Federal troops stand guard as nine African American students enter all white Central high school in Little Rock Arkansas. Before integration, schools provided for black children were rarely as good as those provided for whites. This one room shack in Farmville, Virginia served as a makeshift schools to black children after local officials closed public school to avoid integration. White students meanwhile attended private schools that receive state and county funds. Than a girl call Linda brown whose father suit against the Topeka Board of education set the stage for integration of public schools. In some areas the idea of school desegregation prompted a violent reaction. This sign was put up by anonymous extermists in Florida in the late 1950s. Central High principal J. W. Matthews confers with officers of the National Guard, called in by the governor to block integration of the school. Faubus displays the front page of the conservative ManchestermUnion Leader during a television address condemning what he called the occupation of Little Rock by federal troops. Opponents of school desegregation demonstrate outside the Arkansas State Capital.