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Desegregation: The Little Rock Nine
Desegregation
Dakota hawkins The streets of downtown little rock are crawling with citizen from all over the world who do not want desegregation to happen in Little Rock Central High.

The citizens of little rock will not allow the integration of Central High.

If this crowd doesn't start to dissipate, the school might be forced to hold off on bringing the negro students into the school, otherwise someone is going to get hurt. People are rioting all over the city of Little Rock, people are grabbing whatever they can find and are doing whatever they can do to stop the integration of Central High. We have news that the president of the united states will be sending in his own military to ensure that the Little Rock nine will get into the school.
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the nine black students here in the photo are the nine that are in the Little Rock Central high.

Rosa Parks
Dakota Hawkins
Rosa Parks is an adult female african american. She is referred to as the first lady of civil rights, or the mother of the freedom movement. Her name became famous because she refused to give up her seat to a white male who wished to sit in the seat that she was in. She will always be thought of as the girl that started the civil rights movement in some people's eyes. She is being tried and to be put in prison for her actions but we will see if that sentence will truly carry out as

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