La ségrégation dans le sud de l'amérique en 1957

1957 The little Rock Crisis

1/ It's an article, writte by « Carlotta Walls LaNier » , publicated in two thousand and nine. Name Unexpected Heoes, it's about a black girl fighting the racsisim.

2/In 1957, Elizabeth Eckford and 8 other students tried to integrate a former white-only school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The 9 African American students are now called 'the Little Rock Nine'. It happened 3 years after the ruling Brown vs Board of Education ended school segregation in 1954. It allowed Black students in white schools. The 9 students were supposed to come together as a group. There was confusion and Elizabeth didn't get the message. So she took a city bus by herself. But Elizabeth was turned away by the guard, she couldn't enter the school. She was followed by angry demonstrators. This event is important today because segregation in school is not over, there are still discriminations and racism. The recent shootings of Black teenagers by white police officers (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown) are hitting the headlines / in the news.

3/We are in « the little rock crisis » with 9 yougn student with their familie in 1957. We just knox one name : « Charlotta Walls »

4/Fervent :

Force :

Exclure socialement : ostracized

Harceler, persécuter : harassed

La remise des diplômes : graduation

Être pris pour cible : targeted

5/Well, in any case, we can say that the South American system is good! But it is only good for "true Americans" as the American purists say, you don't have to be black, but you can also think that it wasn't better to just be from another country! Because when students attack their classmates on racial grounds, there is a problem, but when teachers let it happen, it is that the system is totally unfair and elitist of a particular social caste. So obviously I'm against it.

6/ Charlotta is black, and for that she has no right to live like the others, she could have said to herself "it's like that and I can't help it", but NO she decided to take her life in hand and make things change around them! So that's why she don't want to be like other, she will fight for freedom, even if her familie would be hurt she will never stop, and became the first black to be an academian !

7/ At first it must have been very hard, because aggressions often happened, but thanks to her strength of character she managed to overcome this ordeal and thus became the first black academic woman! This changed her life forever, because she had to live a hell of a life during all these years "my father lost his job" "my home was bombed"...

But she has graduated and is now an imminent symbol in the future fight against racial inequalities. She did not know, but thanks to her thousands of young black students could be considered as "normal" by the teachers. So it changed the future of the United States!

8/ In their struggle to attend school, The Little Rock Nine faced verbal and physical assaults from white

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