african american students

Chronicles the harrowing junior year at Central High of Melba Pattillo Beals, during which she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism, which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.

Discusses the 1963 Birmingham Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama.

Traces the efforts of the "Little Rock Nine" to attend a formerly all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September of 1957. Outlines the views and motivations of everyone involved in the desegregation of Central High School and discusses how it became a pivotal event in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.

Gavin Cole is a black, inner-city kid being bused to a new middle school in the suburbs and he feels very out of place--but his skill at skateboarding helps him to make a connection to a group of other enthusiasts.

Nine African-American teenagers from Little Rock, Arkansas, changed history when they went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Why? Because the school had previously been segregated. Read about their amazing story, their courageous determination, and how they succeeded in helping to eliminate segregation from the American school system forever.

Discusses the history of legal challenges to segregation in the United States focusing on the crisis surrounding the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with eyewitness accounts from both black and white students at the high school.

Describes the unfair system of education in the United States called segregation and how nine African American students attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Latin instructor Jerome Washington, the only African-American teacher at an all-boys boarding school in Connecticut, finds his ideals about race challenged by a promising young African-American student who responds to Jerome in an unexpected way.

A retrospective look at the 1957 integration of nine African-American students into Little Rock Central High School that provides a look at the school fifty years later and discusses the event.