Little ROCK HIGH SCHOOL 1957

Question 1

Following the Brown verdict a decision was made to

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Desegregate schools in Little Rock

Question 2

Brown case led to the school board that Little Rock High school

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Would desegregate on 3 Spetember 1957

Question 3

The NAACP arranged for the

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Black students to arrive together to the school

Question 4

Faubus sent 250 state troops to surround the school.This prevented the

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Black students from entering the school

Question 5

Faubus said he sent the state troops to

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” keep the peace “

Question 6

Fabus was a

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Fierce opponent to school integration

Question 7

Elizabeth Exkford did not recieve the

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Notification to arrive with the rest.She was targeted by the crowd and racially abused

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District judges and NAACP lawyers challenged Faubus to

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Force him to withdraw the troops

Question 9

On 24 September President Eisenhower sent

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Federal troops to ensure the black students could enter the school successfully

Question 10

Why did the President have to intervene ?

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Because of worldwide ,edia covergae of the event at Little Rock High School,forced Eisenhower to het invoved as USA’s image was being damaged abroad

Question 11

Due to the hundreds of reporters from local and international news stations reported the event which led to

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People being shocked at the media coverage of how children were being racially abused

Question 12

Here was continued resisitance to school integration agter 1957 many schools in the south rather

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Shut down then desegregate

Question 13

The first black student graduate from Little Rock High School in 1958 but his

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White classmate refused to sit with him in the ceremony

Question 14

Even 10 years later black students attending newly integrated schools in the south were subjected to

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Violence,intimidation and exclusion from teachers and classmates