65 years ago, the Little Rock Nine

[Norbert]

I couldn't imagine being as courageous as these young people.

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[70sEraVet]

1. My wife and I were fascinated by a quaint tiny one-room schoolhouse in the small rural town

in Tennessee, with an outhouse in back. Later, we learned that this school was built for the African American children of the town in the 1920's, and was used until the MID SIXTIES, with no running water, no air conditioning, only a coal stove for heating and to warm pots of soup for lunches.
My best friend now is a gentleman who attended that school. He and I have been working on it, making repairs, trying to preserve it.
Our country came through some dark times; there are those who want to put us back there.

[LeftInTX]

2. There were probably alot of small places which persisted

I think school integration was only mandatory where it was geographically feasible.

There is a public school in Mississippi which still had mandatory prayer in the 1990's.

MISSISSIPPI MOTHER TO SUE OVER SCHOOL PRAYER
By Laurie Goodstein December 20, 1994
In a challenge to the burgeoning school prayer movement, a parent of five children is planning to sue her Mississippi public school district because she says her children have been harassed and ridiculed for opting out of prayers and Bible studies held during class time.

The case is certain to focus public attention on the small Mississippi town of Ecru and other religiously homogeneous communities across the country where Christian prayer and Bible study continue to be a regular part of the school day. The district superintendent says that the school is not violating any laws regulating religion in the schools, and contends no other parents have complained.

The American Civil Liberties Union in Mississippi and People for the American Way plan to file the suit today in federal court in Oxford, Miss., on behalf of Lisa Herdahl and her five children.

Herdahl says her 7-year-old son Jason has been taunted by other students since his second-grade teacher put headphones over his ears last year to drown out the prayers recited over the school intercom. Her son David, 11, was branded an "atheist" and "devil worshipper" by classmates after a teacher said David did not participate in Bible class because he didn't believe in God, the suit alleges.

Herdahl is a store clerk married to an auto mechanic. Her children were baptized as Lutherans and attend Sunday school at a Pentecostal Church. When she moved to Ecru from Wisconsin in 1993 and enrolled her children at the North Pontotoc Attendance Center, a public school for kindergarten through 12th grade, she was informed that the school teaches a Bible course and that prayers were recited daily over the intercom. She asked that her children not participate. But the school has no organized provisions for students who opt out, and some days during Bible study they sit out in the hallways.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/12/20/mississippi-mother-to-sue-over-school-prayer/be802e43-a12c-40c9-9c88-415ca7b81018/

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You can watch the full documentary free on Tubi:
https://tubitv.com/movies/661208/school-prayer-a-community-at-war?start=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed

[Lonestarblue]

3. Those white people were the MAGA supporters of their day--hateful white people.

I do honor the courage of those nine students not only to run the gauntlet of angry mean white people just to get into the school but also to be in the school with classmates who may have been just as hateful as their parents. Racism is still eating this country alive.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. The only difference is the red caps

Otherwise, things are just as bad now, if not worse. At least they didn't try to overthrow the government then. And weren't infatuated in fascism.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ❤️

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Republican President Eisenhower intervened to protect the Little Rock nine.

The former Supreme Allied Commander was still antifa.