With the Might of Angels (2011)
“A sign reading “For Colored Only” denotes a segregated water fountain.
After the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision was reached in the U.S. Supreme Court, schools all over the nation were mandated to desegregate, and the NAACP tried to register black students in previously all-white schools throughout the South. In September of 1957 nine black students, who were chosen on the basis of their academic achievements and who would become known as the Little Rock Nine, were registered to ...attend Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. However, after groups all over the city threatened to block the entrance to the school, the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had the Arkansas National Guard deployed to support the segregationists and keep the Little Rock Nine from entering the building. An angry mob of segregationists, who hurled physical and verbal abuse, as well as threats of lynching, and members of the Arkansas National Guard gathered on September 4, 1957, to prevent the nine students from going into the school, a move that reverberated around the nation.MoreLess
After the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision was reached in the U.S. Supreme Court, schools all over the nation were mandated to desegregate, and the NAACP tried to register black students in previously all-white schools throughout the South. In September of 1957 nine black students, who were chosen on the basis of their academic achievements and who would become known as the Little Rock Nine, were registered to ...attend Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. However, after groups all over the city threatened to block the entrance to the school, the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had the Arkansas National Guard deployed to support the segregationists and keep the Little Rock Nine from entering the building. An angry mob of segregationists, who hurled physical and verbal abuse, as well as threats of lynching, and members of the Arkansas National Guard gathered on September 4, 1957, to prevent the nine students from going into the school, a move that reverberated around the nation.MoreLess
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