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| OPENING DOORS, OPENING MINDS October 10, 1997 |
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Questions answered in this forum:How can positive relations be established? What does the increasing segregation of schools mean for future race relations? Is school the critical place where ideas about race are formed? Do you think continued efforts to desegregate schools will further better economic success? What role do black institutions have in allowing blacks to flourish?
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Central High School
On September 25, 1957 nine black students, escorted by troops of the 101st Airborne division, walked into history. Through a swarm of verbal and physical abuse, "The Little Rock Nine" nervously entered Central High School 40 years ago.
They were the first black students to attend a public school reserved for whites. They were the first black teenagers to face a white community that dreaded federally imposed desegregation of public schools.
At the time, Governor Orval Faubus was so angered by the federally enforced court-ordered integration, he called out the National Guard to block the move. But Faubus withdrew the soldiers only after being threatened by another court order.
Marking the 40th anniversary, the current governor Mike Huckabee and President Bill Clinton opened Central High's doors wide and welcomed The Little Rock Nine inside.
Today, one of the original nine students teaches at the very same school the Governor of Arkansas blocked them from entering. And the student body of Central High, which is now 60 percent African-American, recentely elected for the first time a black woman to be the student body president.
But are the students, or society in general, fully integrated?
In this forum our guests will look at the implications of the integration of America's schools. Our guests are two members of the President's One America advisory panel.
They are William Winter, former governor of Mississippi, and Christopher Edley, professor at Harvard University.
Questions answered in this forum:How can positive relations be established? What does the increasing segregation of schools mean for future race relations? Is school the critical place where ideas about race are formed? Do you think continued efforts to desegregate schools will further better economic success? What role do black institutions have in allowing blacks to flourish?
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