Little Rock Nine

Watching this documentary I realized just how harsh it was for colored students back in the 1950s. I find it ridiculous that the military had to brought in just to get 9 colored students into a predominately white school. Their efforts would have been much more useful on serious issues at the time. These students weren't any different from the students already attending the school. They wanted to learn and grow as people and they were ostracized for it. The time the colored student talked about how he would be getting beat up by groups of people at once in gym class and their coach told them to stop and fight him one on one like a "man", I felt shocked that the coach wouldn't just put an end to the fighting all together. People of authority in situations like that shouldn't instigate the problem, but instead try to solve it. People like that coach are the reason racism is still relevant in this day in age. I was glad when the black student fought back and when he was winning the coach broke it up. That really pissed me off because the coach decided to break things up when he saw things weren't going his way. Nevertheless, the colored students continues their education at this school and battled through one hardship after another. I respect them for still putting themselves in this hostile environment and fighting through it.