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They Changed Everything: Highest Civilian Honor

controversial Eisenhower made as president. In the end, though, it provided a critical turning point in American race relations. Many of the later advances gained by such civil-rights champions as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could be traced, at least in part, to the heroism of the Littie Rock Nine and to Eisenhower's determination that he had no choice except to support the rule of law established by the courts. Later presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson would also use troops to enforce courts' desegregation orders. Highest Civilian Honor Bill Clinton living only 50 Rock, the ers faced taunts, to seek hometown. House ceremony with the awarded act AP Photos Rock Nine, top, desegregatHigh School in 1957 with of troops. Above, the nine in Thelma Mothershed-Wair, Brown Trickey, Jefferson Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Lanier, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Green, Elizabeth Eckford and Pattillo Beals. Arkansas officials President Bill Clinton at rear. "All of a sudden, they up and it wasn't the way were any more. And then evhad to decide: Where do you on this? What do you believe? you going to live?" Little Rock Nine blinked tears as their president told been walking with you for 42 each and kissed each woman made clear he considered the yet entirely won. "We are when apathy, indifference threaten to reverse your warned. lives," the president said at the cere- Tomorrow: Democracy's Turning Points Congressional Gold Medal winner was 11 years old, jeers and death threats for daring years now." He hugged education in the best high school in their on the cheek. recalled those days at the White Clinton, in his talk, where he presented each of them civil-rights struggle not highest civilian honors medals honoring you at a time of Congress. and legal backsliding "These people, they burst in on our hard-gotten gains," he miles from Little Elizabeth Eckford with Clinton Nov. 9. back nine black teenagthem: "I feel like I've The Little ing Central the help 1997: Minnijean Thomas, Walls Ernest Melba and mony. showed things eryone stand How are The lives,"
Article from 23 Nov 1999Newsday(New York, NY)
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