Sixty-six years after the integration of public schools, I present an oral history of the Little Rock Nine—about nine Black high-school students who were the first to integrate the white-only Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that segregating Black and white students was unconstitutional.
Little Rock Central High School would be the major test case for integration. And the nine sacrificial lambs, the nine exceptional Black students who had been selected to be thrown to the huge wolf pack of 2,100 mostly racist, white high-school students, would become known as the Little Rock Nine.
