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The Litle Rock Nine

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Litle Rock Nine

By: Bailey Elliott, Grace Harris, and Maddie Ladner A2

Little Rock Nine

  • September 4, 1957
  • Awarded Congressional Gold Medal
  • Integrated Little Rock Central High
  • Verbal and Physical assault 
  • Eight of nine students remained at Central
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Melba Pattillo Beals

  • San Francisco State University and Columbia University
  • Bachelors degree and masters degree
  • 1st of nine to write a book about what happened in 1957
  •  Live in San Francisco and works as a author, public speaker
  • Reporter,Communications Consultent, Motivational Speaker

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Elizabeth Eckford

  • Served in U.S. army for five years
  • Teacher, welfare worker, interviewer, Military Reporter
  • Currently a probation officer in Little Rock
  • Spingarn Medal, Highest Civilian Award, Congressional Gold Medal
  • Mother of two sons

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Gloria ray

  • Illinois Institute of Technology, received a Bachelors degree
  • Joined the ITT Research Institute as Assistant Math Matician
  •  Lives in Amsterdam with her husband, Krister Carlmark
  •  Has two children, Mats and Elin
  • She is now retired 

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Carlotta Walls

  • Michigan State, graduated from Colorado State Collage
  • Real-estate broker, founded her own Real-Estate brokerage
  • President of the Little Rock Nine Foundation
  • Received honorary decorate of humane letters in Colorado
  • Englewood, Colorado with husband Ira and son Whitney

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Minnijean Brown

  • Southern Illinois University, and majored in Journalism
  • Later moved to Ottawa, Canada
  • She received a bachelor of Social Work in Native Human Services
  • Master's of Social Work from Carleton University

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Thelma Mothershed

  • Graduated from Southern Illinois University
  • Earned a degree in Home Economics Education
  • Numerous awards for contributions and community service
  • earned the NAACP'S Springarn Medal, Congressional Medal
  • She currently lives in Little Rock 

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Ernest green

  • Michigan State University, received Masters degree in Sociology
  • Awarded NAACP Spingarn medal at seventeen years old 
  • Presented with the Congregational Gold Medal
  • Clinton appointed as chairman of African Development Foundation
  • Lives in Washington, DC with his wife Phyllis

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Jefferson Thomas

  • Wayne State University
  • Los Angeles State College
  • Staff Sargent in the U.S. army
  • Speaker at High Schools, Colleges, Universities
  • NAACP Medal, Congressional Gold Medal

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Terrence Roberts

  • Bachelors degree in Sociology in 1967
  •  Masters degree in social welfare in 1970
  • Spingarn Medal and Congressional Medal
  • Economic Resource, Western Justice, Little Rock Nine Foundation
  • Live with wife, Rhita in Pasadena, California

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