Little Rock Nine: A revolution for liberty
September 23, 2008 by libertyisforme
On this day in 1957, three years after the US Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional - something earlier found to be kosher in Plessy v. Ferguson - nine African-American students were escorted by the National Guard inside an all-white high school, Little Rock Central.
However, on this day, the Nine faced grave opposition from whites, especially Governor Faubus, a douchebag, who, prior to the event, called whites across the 
state to rally outside the high school.
According to the history museum across the high school, Faubus in his bid for Governor in 1954 said “no school district will be forced to mix the races as long as I am governor of Arkansas.” He later became part of TIME magazines most influential people in the world, what were they thinking!
However, not all Whites were nuts at the time, the Women Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, a group of 70ish year old white women, who favored integration and opposed Governor Faubus decisions.
Below is a flyer they created when they were trying to re-open Little Rock public schools, after Gov. Faubus (again, what a douchebag!) closed all schools due to the hostile environment.
So to make a story short, nine students fought for their freedom, to be seen as equals. Their journey is just another example of the revolution for liberty.
So, where are you the young people of this generation? Where is our revolution?
I’ll leave you with this quote from the museum:
[...] I had the privilege to visit Central High in Little Rock with Liberty Girl, the school that – as she points out in the previous post – 51 years ago today was an international focal point for racial justice. Two ideas quickly stood [...]
Equal treatment under the law rocks. What happened in Little Rock was a great freedom for freedom and human decency.
John Lewis–whose quotation you have at the end of the post–was my former congressman in Atlanta and still represents Georgia’s 5th district. He’s a socialist through and through, which is OK–I just adamantly disagree with him. What’s striking, however, is how similar his quotation is to Barack Obama’s “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.”
Both statements are inspiring and motivational and a good lesson for everyone to take on political marketing.