Little Rock Nine
This was the date and year of the Little Rock Nine's first day of school
What is September 4th, 1957
This local school district did not integrate until 1969
What is Lee County?
Name at least four members of the Little Rock Nine students (bonus points if you can name all eight)
Who was/is:
Ernest Green
Elizabeth Eckford
Terrence Roberts
Melba Pattillo Beals
Thelma Mothershed Wair
Minnijean Brown Trickey
Jefferson Thomas
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Gloria Ray Karlmark?
Rosalind Blalock was denied admittance to Fort Myers High School in what year
What is 1964?
He was the Governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Nine's Journey
Who was Gov. Orval Faubus?
This high school was the only Black high school in Lee County until the county's desegregation
What is Dunbar High School?
This president called the National Guard to escort students into the school building after mob resistance
Who is President Dwight Eisenhower?
It was in this year that schools in Lee County would truly be ruled as equal, with all forms of segregation becoming illegal
What is 1999?
He was the only Seventh-day Adventist out of all the Little Rock Nine students
Who is Terrence Roberts?
This local high school was closed in order to promote busing and integration of schools
What is Dunbar High School?