Little Rock Nine isn’t Black, white history, it’s U.S. history
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 21, 2025
Minnijean Brown-Trickey, who is one of the nine children who suffered all manners of threats, intimidation and humiliation to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 in a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement speaks to a packed crowd at the 42nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Services at the MLK Center in Rock Island, Monday January 20. PHOTO CREDIT TODD WELVAERT
Sixty-seven years after the Little Rock Nine was escorted by armed soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division through an angry white mob to desegregate Central High School, that pivotal piece . . .
