Dramatization of the struggles of the Little Rock Nine. Ernest Green and eight other black students enrolled in an all-white school in 1957 and triumphed over the harassment and restrictive conditions they encountered.
"Dramatization of the struggles of the Little Rock Nine. Ernest Green and eight other black students enrolled in an all-white school in 1957 and triumphed over the harassment and restrictive conditions they encountered."@en
"This is a dramatized version of the Ernest Green story. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court had opened the door for blacks to attend segregated schools, when Ernest Green and eight other black students enrolled in an all-white school, they found themselves standing against hatred, state troopers and even the governor."
"The true story of Ernest Green and eight other young black students who enrolled in an all-white school in 1957 and triumphed over the adversity and intolerance they encountered."@en
""Based on the true story of Ernest Green and the Arkansas Nine, who against an onslaught of intense racial attacks and resentment, became the first African-American high school students to attend the previously segregated Central High in 1957. The story of Ernest Green's extraordinary courage and perseverance, is portrayed in THE ERNEST GREEN STORY, not only as a watershed moment in our nation's civil rights struggle, but as an illustration of how this story of discrimination and prejudice is as vital and relevant for young people today as it was in 1957."--1993 Peabody Awards entry form. After the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal school facilities were unconstitutional, Ernest Green and eight other black high school students are determined to enroll in the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green, the only senior, is the only one of the nine who graduates from Central High before it is closed by the governor in 1958 as a way to deter integration."
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