Article 6MWSA 70 Years After Brown V. Board of Education, Little Rock Nine Reflect on Their Sacrifice

70 Years After Brown V. Board of Education, Little Rock Nine Reflect on Their Sacrifice

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Angela Johnson
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In 1954, the Supreme Court's seminal Brown V. Board of Education decision declared that racial segregation in the country's public schools was unconstitutional. But despite that monumental ruling, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray,...

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