Significance of Events at Little Rock

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Who reported the event?

Hundreds of reporters from local and international news stations

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What were people shocked at?

The coverage of how children were being racially abused.

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What continued after 1957?

Resistance to school integration.

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How did resistance continue after 1957 in the south?

Many schools shut down rather than desegregate.

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What happened in 1958?

The 1st black student graduated from Little Rock High School, but white students refused to sit with him at the ceremony.

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What happened to black students attending newly integrated Southern schools 10 years later?

They were subjected to violence, intimidation and exclusion by teachers and peers.