'Little Rock Nine' member shares civil rights experiences with Utah students
KAYSVILLE — Nearly 61 years ago, nine teenagers arrived for their first day of school only to be greeted by an angry mob and the Arkansas National Guard, sent by the state's governor to bar the teenagers' entry into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.The reason? The color of their skin."I remember ... seeing the angry faces screaming, spitting, cursing, banging on the car as they held us," said Ernest Green, the first black person to graduate from what had been an all-white schoo
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