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Mzuri
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Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 04:55 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Commemorative Coin Honors Little Rock 9
By Associated Press
May 19, 2007, 6:21 AM EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Fifty years ago, nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School. Now, they are being honored on a commemorative silver coin.

The U.S. Mint was to unveil the coin Saturday at the NAACP's Daisy Bates Education Summit, which pays tribute to the Arkansas NAACP leader who served as adviser to the Little Rock Nine.

Six of the nine planned to attend a discussion with current Central High students at the summit, which began Thursday and ends Saturday.

Integration at Central High in 1957 was the first major test of the Supreme Court's ruling, three years earlier, against racial discrimination in public schools.

President Eisenhower dispatched the 101st Airborne to enforce the court order after Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent black students from enrolling at the school.

One side of the $1 coin depicts a group of students being escorted by a soldier. It features the phrase "Desegregation in Education" and contains nine stars. The other side depicts Central High as it looked in 1957.

Little Rock plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the integration in September with a series of events, including the dedication of a new Central High School Historic Site visitor center.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-central-high-50th,0,5569773. story


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Yukio
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Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 05:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

how convenient...these are the ways the government rewrites u.s. history. LOL!
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 02:41 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

So how much do we have to pay to commemorate white folks kicking Negroe's butts for trying to go to school with them?

The coin ought to be free for all black folks. We can get as many as we like.
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Mzuri
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Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 03:20 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Here you go. Add it to your wish list and keep dreaming.

http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=100 01&storeId=10001&productId=14115&langId=-1


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