Little Rock Nine Research Paper

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In 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional, starting a movement toward school desegregation. Many of the southern states had not begun to desegregate schools years after the Supreme Court ruling and the government turned a blind eye to the misjustice. With the help of Daisy Bates and other members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), nine black students were applied to Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. The Little Rock Nine encountered curiosity and violence from white students attending Central High School and from people against the desegregation of white schools; these people, such as Governor Faubus, explored ways to prevent the desegregation of Central High and other all white schools, …show more content…
Board…”). Brown was fighting to desegregate schools, which went against the 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case that stated “separate but equal”. The Plessy vs Ferguson case stated that people of color and whites would have separate facilities of equal standards. The facilities included schools. During the mid 1930s the NAACP had a series of court cases, challenging school segregation and requesting for more equal schools. It was not until the Brown vs Board of Education case that the Plessy Doctrine was rejected by Chief Justice Earl Warren in a unanimous decision by the rest of the Supreme Court Justices. The following year the Supreme Court sent out “guidelines for the implementation” of the ruling. Even after the guidelines were sent out many schools, especially in the south, had not started implementing a desegregation plan. In the fall of 1957 one school gained nationwide media attention. Nine brave African American students try to integrate into an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, they known today as the Little Rock