Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957

by Kekla Magoon

On September 4, 1957, nine African American teenagers made their way toward Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They didn't make it very far. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard blocked most of them at the edge of campus. The three students who did make it onto campus faced an angry mob. White citizens spit at them and shouted ugly racial slurs. No black students entered Central that day. And if the angry mob had its way, black...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076135767X
• ISBN13: 9780761357674
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary