Little Rock Central High School held a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the integration of the Arkansas school. Speakers included former President Bill Clinton, Governor Asa H…
1,893 viewsErnest Green spoke about his experience as one of the first nine African American students to attend Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. The school was the site…
1,301 viewsThe March on Washington Memorial Youth Mentoring Summit held a plenary session with leaders from the civil rights movement. Speakers included Carlotta Walls LaNier and Earnest Green two of t…
297 viewsThis discussion is from a conference on “The Presidency and Civil Rights” held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Among the topics: FDR’s World War II internment of Japa…
1,618 viewsPresident Bill Clinton honored the nine people who were the first black students at Little Rock Central High School on the fortieth anniversary of their enrollment. Other officials spoke as …
2,084 viewsSpeakers celebrated the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. They spoke about historic achievements and the future of the civil rights movement. This plenary session of the NAACP Centennial Conve…
556 viewsMr. Green spoke about his experiences as one of the “Little Rock Nine” and how events like the Little Rock Nine helped to shape the civil rights movement. He also talked about the current …
388 viewsMembers of the “Little Rock Nine” spoke on the 50th anniversary of when they, as teenagers, desegregated Little Rock Central High School under the guidance of Daisy Bates and the protection …
1,338 viewsFollowing a period during which Ms. Parks was honored by lying in repose in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, a memorial service was held to honor her life and legacy prior to her funeral scheduled …
5,884 viewsPresident Clinton and members of Congress honored nine former Little Rock, Arkansas high school students with Congressional Gold Medals. Known as the "Little Rock Nine," they were the firs…
1,219 viewsThe U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter meeting began with a video about the desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1954, African Development Foundation Chairman, Ernest Green, one of the …
53 viewsMr. Green spoke to students and took questions concerning his participation in the “Little Rock Nine", the group of nine African-American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High S…
98 viewsAt Martin Luther King Middle School in Beltsville, Maryland, President Clinton and a group of students participated in a question and answer session on the “Brown v. Board of Education” deci…
329 viewsGreen and Roberts recounted their experiences as students in the Little Rock desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education 35 years after the 1954 case.
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