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Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 5, Time 31:591957 Arkansas. The nation was riveted by the Little Rock Nine. Nine black teenagers were sent to integrate Little Rock senior high school. But it seemed the entire state of Arkansas had to stop them. The governor called on the national guard not to protect the students but to block their entrance to school and threatening white students jeered them at every turn. Finally the black students were allowed to enter the school through a side door and the white mob erupted ….. Notes: Film footage of Little Rock Nine, 1957 References: there are no references for this transcript |