Little Rock follow up

Natalie Gross

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

May 13, 2021

   Little Rock Follow Up

    During an interview conducted by Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP, with Dr. Benjamin Fine, the education editor of The New York Times, he recalled seeing Elizabeth when she tried to get into the school and the guards wouldn't let her and she went back toward the bus stop with a crowd around her yelling, "Get her! Lynch her!", at this point he went up to her and she was crying, so he put his arm around her and said "Don’t let them see you cry". The crowd around her was now yelling at Fine, saying "Get a rope and drag her over to this tree." During this whole thing the guardsmen that blocked Elizabeth earlier did nothing to help the situation, "The irony of it all, Daisy, is that during all this time the national guardsmen made no effort to protect Elizabeth or help me. Instead, they threatened to have me arrested for inciting to riot.” This interview really reveals how hostile the community was toward integration and anyone that showed any support of it. A lot of the time we hear that they were against integration, but we don't usually see it to this extent, or even see a specific example of it. I think that it is usually glossed over too much and it is more fully understood if you see a more personal example such as this. Reading this interview made me understand that it was even worse then than I had known before. 

pg. 92-93 (“They Spat in My Face”)


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