Persuasive Essay On Little Rock Nine

Going to school is a privilege, but it should not against student based on their skin color. The Little Rock Nine as they are commonly known as were nine African-American students that broke the color barrier in schools around America and have transformed them into what they are today. Nowadays going to school includes all races and ethnicities, but back before the 1950s and Brown vs. Board of Education court case things were drastically different. In multiple interviews, the nine students look back on the time and what was going on. For example, in an interview Michael Martin from NPR News, Ernie Green, the first of the nine to graduate talks about their intent when he says, “Well, I think that the nine of us all desired to do well in school. I mean, we were - we may have been early nerds that - we bought the idea from our folks and families and neighborhoods that school was something you had to take seriously, and you had
Since 1865, when slavery was abolished, it got rid of slavery but the discrimination still has not gone away completely. Even though slavery was abolished civil rights were still a vast problem in the United States through the 1950’s. Although the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that “separate was not equal” there is still discrimination. The government can improve African American facilities and give equal opportunities to everyone but it won’t rid the community of their stereotypes and biases. For example, the N-word is used as a discriminatory term to describe an African American and it is still used today. This example also proves that discrimination isn’t over and brings up the question if it will ever end. Brown vs. Board of Education was 62 years ago and we are still having problems with discrimination. How much longer could it go on for? Another 62 years or maybe even 620 years? Nobody can predict but as history shows it’s not leaving as soon as we thought it