Arkansas Nine Desegregating America's Schools Term Paper

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C., office. "The important thing that we realize the older that we get is how unique it was that a group of teenagers got to participate in this seminal event. For each of us, we had different visions about what was going to happen there, but we all saw Central as a better place to improve our own personal education."

The Arkansas nine represents the introduction to one another of young white and black students, who would eventually overcome the racial differences between them to the point where it would one day go unnoticed as to the color of another student's skin. Even in 1957, the reaction to nine students entering a white high school was one of less concern to the students, and of greater concern to parents, businesses, and political leaders whose constituency relied upon a political position siding with racism.

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Conclusion

Orval Faubus acted out of self-interest, and a desire for his own political career to survive. Once Americans were able to get past the self-interest of its political leaders, the real work of healing the disease of racism was able to begin. It was not a healing that would come about quickly, and there would be sacrifices made along the way by people who would give their lives to further equality, civil rights, and to uphold the American Constitution.

Today, as we look at the place of Black Americans politically, economically, academically and socially, we find that we have much to thank the Arkansas nine for, because without their bold bravery, one giant step for equality, the Constitution, and the healing of the disease of racism would not have come about.

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