Do Now

1) What was the significant ruling made in Brown v Board of Education?

2) What problems might African American students face now that schools are

integrated?

Reminders

• Civil Rights Interview Project due NEXT FRIDAY!

10.2- Little Rock

Segregated Schools

• Many white people in the 21 states with segregated schools strongly opposed school integration.

• Some promised to block school integration and refused to integrate.

• Schools were refusing to desegregate and protests against integration took place throughout the South.

Little Rock Nine

• Little Rock, Arkansas• 1957- the school board allowed 9 black

students to attend the city’s white Central High School.

• The governor of Arkansas called in the National Guard to block the nine students from entering the school.

Video Clip

• For three weeks the National Guard prevented the nine students from going to school.

• President Eisenhower sent more than a thousand federal troops to Little Rock to end the standoff.

• September 25, 1957- federal troops escorted the nine students into the school.

Guided Practice

• Photo Analysis

Independent Practice

• 1) Read the letter you were assigned written to the President during the Little Rock Crisis.

• 2) Answer the questions

Homework

• Civil Rights Interview Questions

Exit Ticket

• 1) Who were the Little Rock Nine?• 2) Why do you think they were willing to put

up with so much to attend school?