The Civil Rights Movement
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  • What's the Civil Rights Movement?
  • People
    • The Little Rock Nine
    • Daisy Bates
    • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Malcolm X
    • George Wallace
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Jackie Robinson
    • James Meredith
    • Rosa Parks
    • John F Kennedy
    • Thurgood Marshall
    • Emitt Till
  • Places
    • Little Rock, AR
    • Selma, AL
    • Birmingham, AL
    • Montgomery, AL
    • Atlanta, GA
    • Greensboro, NC
  • Events
    • Brown vs. Board of Education
    • Integration of Little Rock Central High School
    • Woolworth's Sit-Ins
    • Montgomery Bus Boycotts
    • March on Washington
    • MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech
    • Rosa Parks' Bus Ride
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • The Assassination of MLK
    • Malcolm X: Assassinated
    • Ole Miss University
    • University of Alabama
    • Hoxie: The First Act
    • Thurgood Marshall Appointed Supreme Court Justice
  • Why Can't I Sit by Him? A Look at Segregated Facilities
  • Bibliography

Little rock nine

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Little Rock Nine were 
nine brave people the tried and successfully
integrated in the white only school, Little Rock Central High. Even though they were bullied and
threatened by more than fifty people, but they achieved a good goal and a huge
leap in the civil rights movement. The Nine consisted of Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Melba Patillo, Carlotta Walls, Elizabeth Eckford, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, and Jefferson Thomas. Ernest Green was the only senior in the group and graduated as the first African American at Little Rock Central High.

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