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The Little Rock Nine: Mobs, Violence, and School Closings
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Black students who enrolled in Dunbar high school in Arkansas in 1957, reflects on the mob and violence that met her on the first day of that school year. It would take a few days and the interference...
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The Little Rock Nine: an Introduction
Do you remember your first day of school? I do. And I was reminded about that day when learning about the story of the Little Rock Nine. Here's the story of my first day of school and how it was different from the experience of the...
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The Little Rock Nine: Separate and Unequal
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States that permitted segregation in everything water fountains to buses to schools. Services were definitely separate in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, but...
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Ruby Bridges and the Fight for Integration in Education
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist.
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
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Pbs Learning Media: Segregated Schooling in South Carolina
In this video segment, produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, Joseph De Laine Jr. and Ophelia De Laine Gona describe conditions in segregated South Carolina schools in 1950. [2:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Overcoming Segregation
This video from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey introduces students to the discrimination faced by Mexican Americans in Mesa, Arizona during the Great Depression. Guerrero...