All About Minnijean
The year Minnijean Trickey was a tenth grader.
The year 1956.
The amount of items Minnijean donated.
20 of her personal items.
The school that newly opened in 1956 that Minnijean went to.
Horace Mann School for African Americans.
Who was one of the first of Little Rock Nine to attend Central High School?
Minnijean Trickey.
The printed signs that the white students had put up after she was expelled said ____.
"one down eight to go."
The display and museum Minnijean's dress is on/in.
It is in the National Museum of American History on the display of "American Stories."
The amount of African American students that were approved to go to Central High.
80 African American students.
The Supreme Court decision that was mentioned in the article.
Brown v. Board of Education.
One of Minnijean's greatest pleasures.
She spoke at an award ceremony for Malala Yousazai in 2014.
"sacred ceremony."
Spirit Trickey
"She walked the halls of Central like she belonged there."
Former White Students of Central High.
The meaning of jeering.
Making rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice.
The reason why Minnijean went in Central High. (Two Reasons)
Minnijean heard the announcement that schools were desegregated and enrolled in Central High.
Or) It was nine blocks away from her house and her and her two best friends could walk there.
Kenneth and Mamie Clark are both psychologists that conducted research on how school negatively affects younger students.
False, both were "African-American psychologists who had conducted pioneering research that exposed the negative effects of segregation on African-American children."
Little Rock Nine was apart of the most ______.
"dangerous and dramatic school desegregation efforts in the country."
The two things that Minnijean's used on her.
(Poured) Lunch food and (hit her with) a purse.
The thing that made Minnijean different from the rest of the eight students.
Minnijean got suspended and later expelled from the school because she poured food on her tormentors and retaliated.
Doing the math and research (from the article), the age Minnijean would be now in 2021.
79 years of age. Her birthday is September 11, 1941.
The thing that makes the Arkansas Special (that pertains to this.)
There are individual statues of the Little Rock Nine on the grounds of Arkansas Capitol (placed there in 2005).
The reason why Minnijean donated her personal items.
"-her story and that of the Little Rock Nine would be preserved for future generations not as African-American History but as American History."