Today, I learned Alabama is now, 82 years later, moving to posthumously pardon the 9 black teenagers (The Scottsboro 9) who were convicted of raping two white women in 1931 and sentenced to death. A classic example of Jim Crow, this case has been viewed as having outraged so many Americans that the slow process of social change began to incrementally remove the embedded racial elements of our society.
1. he didnt want blacks going to school with the whites.
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3. 9 blacks students were given the choice to go to the little rock school.
4. she was one of the 9 students.
5. at first it wasnt effective.
6. when the black students were given a federal guard to escort them to class.
7. she poured her lunch on the white girl who was messing with her.
8. his final solution was to use state police and remove national guard from little rock.
9. its sad to see what happened but they made an impact in everyone's lives.
-Kristen Caler