📚 Thelma Mothershed-Wair, Bürgerrechtsaktivistin, wurde 1940 geboren.

• • Little Rock Nine: Erste schwarze Schüler an einer vormals rein weißen Highschool.
• • Schutz durch die Nationalgarde war notwendig.
• • Thelma Mothershed-Wair war eine der Schülerinnen.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/29-11-1940-us-buergerrechtsaktivistin-thelma-mothershed-wair-geboren-100.html

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📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

#ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
They carved a path to make the future form...

#LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

📅 September 23, 1957
President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort 9 Black students into Central High School, facing down mobs and a defiant governor.

They became known as the Little Rock Nine.

#LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #CivilRights #Desegregation #BlackHistory #Justice

Want to know more about the Little Rock Nine, read a first hand account by one of the participants in the integration attempt at Central High School in 1957. Read Melba Patiolla Beals' Warriors Don't Cry. #LittleRockNine #Desegregation #DaisyBates #MelbaPatilloBeals #WarriorsDon'tCry

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See our latest post on the Little Rock Nine. Their effortsd to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas defined the Civil Rights Struggle and placed the issue of school desegregation squarely in the forefront of social equality. #LittleRockNine #DaisyBates #101stAirborne #ErnestGreen #MelbaPatilloBeals

https://zurl.co/UwBs