The Little Rock Nine

It's interesting that normally they talk about the battle leading up to getting the kids in school. They talk about getting turned away by state police, then later the US military makes sure the kids come in. The white riots outside, and beating that one man with a brick, the one girl who was separate from the others by accident and had to deal with taunts until someone came to her aid.

But when I read the scholastic news story, and the stuff I found on Youtube, the part that gets underplayed is how terrible of a year it was for those students. They had military escort outside and between classes, but not in or in the bathrooms. They would get ganged up on in those areas sometimes. One kid ended up getting suspended for finally standing up for themselves and pouring soup or chili on another kid who was tormenting them.