Little Rock Nine Thanksgiving

Little Rock Nine students eat Thanksgiving dinner with L. C. and Daisy Bates; November 1957. (Left to right): Carlotta Walls, Terrence Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Thelma Mothershed, L. C. Bates, and Daisy Bates.

Older African American man and woman at dinner table with younger African American boys and girls

Will Counts Collection: Indiana University Archives

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / School Segregation and Desegregation

Type

Event

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