Little Rock Nine

Letter from Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins regarding treatment of the Little Rock Nine, 17 December 1957

Excerpts from an essay entitled "The Ordeal of Minnie Jean Brown: One of the First Nine Negro Students to Attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas," 19 February 1958.

Introduction by Adrienne Cannon
Read by Norman Middleton

Photograph above: Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; African American students arriving in a U.S. Army car.

Civil Rights

Malcolm X

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