Secretary Of Education In State
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Secretary of the U-S Education
Department spent Friday in Little Rock speaking about the Brown versus the Board of Education ruling at Central High School.
Rod Paige, who grew up attending a segregated school in Mississippi, characterized the school`s forced integration in 1957 as a landmark in the struggle for racial equality that began with the Brown ruling three years earlier.
Central High School took the national spotlight when nine black
students, now known as the Little Rock Nine, walked through the front doors accompanied by Army paratroopers who escorted them through mobs of angry whites to enforce a federal desegregation order.
Paige also delivered the commencement address at Harding University in Searcy on Saturday.
