Sunday, March 22, 2009

Change


For my post on change i have elected to write on the topic of The Little Rock Nine, the legendary African American students who were the first children to to integrate a school. The year was 1957 and integration had begun in the north, but the south was still stead fastly resisting the idea. The nine black students who attended Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas are now a days looked upon like heroes for what they did. Imagine how you felt on your first day of highschool, every body no matter who you are goes into their first day pretty damn nervous, if not downright scared. But what if on your first day every other kid at school wanted to kick you and spit on you and call you horrible names. That is the situation that the little rock nine had to face at their school. It is due to brave kids like those of the little rock nine that we now have equal rights for all american citizens. Here is a link to the article I read about the Little Rock Nine, http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/little_rock_nine.htm . And here is the mla, Harding, Melvin M. "The Little Rock Nine." ThinkQuest. June & july 2008. 22 Mar. 2009 .

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