Little+Rock,+Arkansas

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The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. After several failed attempts to negotiate with Faubus, President Dwight D. Eisenhower took action against the defiant governor by simultaneously federalizing the Arkansas National Guard, removing the Guard from Faubus' control, and ordering one thousand troops from the United States Army 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky to oversee the integration. On September 25, 1957 the students, now known as the Little Rock Nine, entered Central High School, an academically renowned school with an enrollment of approximately two thousand white students. Despite suffering constant torment and discrimination from their classmates, eight of the nine students completed the school year at Central High School.
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Tasks: Using the textbook by Salmond J & Newell K, 2009, The Civil Rights Movement, History Program La Trobe University, Melbourne. 4. How have the documents highlighted the position of Civil Rights Movement in the United States?
 * 1) Read p. 18 and answer questions 1-2.
 * 2) Analyse the cartoon on p. 22 and answer questions 1-2.
 * 3) Read through documents 2.8, 2.9 and 2.30. Draw/ insert a table on a word document or in your workbook the table with the following headings:
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