Little Rock Nine
High School Facts
100

This was the date and year of the Little Rock Nine's first day of school

What is September 4th, 1957

100

This local school district did not integrate until 1969

What is Lee County?

200

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?

200

Rosalind Blalock was denied admittance to Fort Myers High School in what year

What is 1964?

300

He was the Governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Nine's Journey

Who was Gov. Orval Faubus?

300

This high school was the only Black high school in Lee County until the county's desegregation

What is Dunbar High School?

400

This president called the National Guard to escort students into the school building after mob resistance

Who is President Dwight Eisenhower?

400

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?

500

He was the only Seventh-day Adventist out of all the Little Rock Nine students

Who is Terrence Roberts?

500

This local high school was closed in order to promote busing and integration of schools

What is Dunbar High School?