How Did The Little Rock Nine Influence The Civil Rights Movement

May 17th, 1954, the United States would face a change nobody would expect to ever happen. Although there were other major influences through out the Civil Rights movement, none impacted a change as much as the little rock nine students. The little rock nine are known for making a huge difference in racial discrimination. This movement was the most significant in the history of civil rights. The efforts of those children started a chain reaction of other improvements to the unjust segregation laws. Since the Independence of America in 1776 , African-American have been fighting for their civil rights in the U.S. They, since day one, have been treated different from everyone else. They were considered servants to the white folk at the time

They will change the entirety of the public school system for years to come and now in present day (Hasday). They were very brave kids. They would have to fight the racial war at six-teen years of age. These nine will face the worst hate of any African-American at the time just because they wanted to be like everyone else. Little Rock could be considered one of the most earliest battlegrounds for civil rights in the Untied Stated. When the Supreme Court ruled in unconstitutional for segregation in public schools in the case Brown v. The Board Of education people started to see and turn in segregation in the U.S. (Temple). The organization that would run this program will be NAACP. That were an African-American group that was fighting for equal rights between whites and blacks. NAACP was a big part of the reason this was even given a chance to happen. The NAACP went to the supreme court and argued that The Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional. That what was going on in the United States was so unconstitutional that they didn't even feel wanted in their own country. In a long trial and though back and forth argument the US Supreme court stated that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools making it illegal to not accept an African-American into a school system because of color. This was only a stepping stone in the movement as they would need more than just a document saying they could go to an all white

They would have to deal with every single person that wanted to stop them form what they were doing. At first, the governor sent National Guard troops to stop them. This did slow them, but didn't stop them as they continued on and tried again. This attempt did fail again as thousandth of white people rioted in the streets. They were carrying weapons threatening to kill the students if they continued to try to enter the school (Kohn) This didn't stop them as they did try again. It was on the third try that it finally succeeded. With the help of President Eisenhower, Dwight