Amna Nawaz: On this Martin Luther King day, we turn for some wisdom to Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the original members of the Little Rock Nine, the teenagers who integrated Central High School ...
Members of the Little Rock Nine "were all targets" at Central, but that virulent opposition made them into "heroes," Brown Trickey noted. Had the backlash against their school attendance not been such ...
Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch visits the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, where brave teens integrated what was later called “America’s Most Beautiful High ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In 1954, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision, ruling that segregation was illegal after hearing arguments in the Brown v. Board of Education case. This marked the formal end ...