Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine (On My Own History)

In 1957, nine teenagers were chosen to be the first black students to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. A small group of people in Little Rock, including the governor of Arkansas, wanted to keep them out. But those nine students knew they had a right to a good education. And they would do anything to crack the wall that had kept black people and white people apart.

A brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Children's Literature

This easy reader with an attitude introduces kids to U.S. race relations history through a recounting of the 1957 standoff during the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School. Although the narration of events is somewhat simplistic, Anthony's fifties' style illustrations evoke the period rather well.