Causes Of The Little Rock Nine Crisis

High schoolers stare at the sign stating, “School Closed by order of the Federal Government”, while one student points two thumbs down at the poster.

Student sit ins

Another consequence of the Little Rock Nine Crisis, was student sit ins and the increased pride in Black students culture and history. In the 1960´s, the Civil Rights movement had increased momentum, especially forms of nonviolent protest promoted by people like Martin Luther King Jr. And on February 1st 1960, four African American students went to a Woolworths store on Greensboro, North Carolina and asked for service in the White section. When they were refused, they patiently waited to be served while White Southerners threatened and harassed them. When the police

A study conducted researching if Black students improved after desegregation, found that after all schools desegregated, from 1976 to 1994, the SAT scores of those students jumped averagely 54 points, while White students stayed stable. This showed how much of an advantage White students had over other minorities, as their schools were much better funded. Integration in schools helped black students learn better, as they were able to go to previously all White schools, that had better resources and a smaller ratio between the number of students and teachers, leading to more individualised working. In the Southern states, the number of minority students in minority only schools dropped 54 percent in from 1968 to 1998, leading to more diversity in the classrooms. Better achievements in school lead to better work and job opportunities for Black students and more opportunistic courier paths. This helped black students get more well paid jobs and have better incomes than their parents. The Little Rock Nine Crisis helped Black students in America have better education by leading by example for many Southern schools. This lead them to accept Black students, and due to having access to better resources, Black students are able to have a better

In October of 1966 Huey Newton and Bob Seal created the Black Panther party to stop police violence in Oakland. Wayne Pharr, a member of the group, when talking about police brutality, stated, “Police jump on you, beat you up, point a gun to your head. This is what we were going through on a daily basis.” One of the activities the black panthers did was what Elbert Howard, a former member called, “observe these so called law makers of their duties. The group would patrol the streets of Oakland, waiting for a police officer to arrest someone, and when he did they would watch from a distance, making sure extreme measures were taken. Only when a police officer first became violent would they react violently. In 1967 the party began its ten point programme, with rules like, “We want freedom” and the “immediate end of police brutality...”.The party soon offered self defense classes and held demonstrations. The group grew fast. A former member of the group, William Calhoun stated,”There was no screening process. No why are you here? The downside of that of course was that we had no idea who any of these people were.” By the late 1960’s the group mainly consisted of older teenagers. In the early 1970’s the party became more focused on social programmes rather than demonstrations. Their most popular programme became breakfast for school children, started in an Oakland church in January 1969.