I remember it very clearly. Used a couple of words from the events in sentences in the 6th grade that year. The old bird on the right should have been around back then, too.
Anyone remember the name of the school? The governor? I mean w/o looking it up.
It was Little Rock Central and the students were called The Little Rock Nine. Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to make sure the kids got to and from school safe and sound.
I have a friend who was there at the time and every day during study hall they’d have to look at pictures and tell the FBI the names of the people in the pictures.
Today that school, for the most part, is ALL black.
Anyone remember the name of the school? The governor?
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It was Central HS in LR AR. I think the Gov. was Faubus.
I was in HS in Dallas at the time. Wife #2 was attending the school with an older sister and younger brother at the time that happened. ....Soldiers with rifles were everywhere.
Governor George Wallace. Don’t remember the school without looking it up, though.