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Congressional Gold Medal Recipients
Little Rock Nine
To Honor and Embrace Those Who Take Risks
Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Echford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo Beals, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls.
Arkansas-born Daisy Bates worked as a crusading newspaper owner-journalist, becoming president of the Arkansas NAACP. After the 1954 Brown school-desegregation decision, Little Rock school board officials decided to begin desegregation of Central High School in September 1957. The Little Rock Nine, ca 1957-60. Copyprint. NAACP Collection 1998 Little Rock Nine In 1954, the Supreme Court declared that segregationkeeping Black people separated from White people in public placeswas unconstitutional. In September of 1957, nine Black students began their school year by entering an all-White high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Though other students treated them badly, they stood up for their right to go to Central High and helped open the door to racial justice. This medal honors Minnijean Brown Trickey, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Melba Pattillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, and Jefferson Thomas, their "selfless heroism and the pain they suffered in the cause of civil rights by integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas."
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