Eye to Eye With Katie Couric: Little Rock Nine (CBS News)

"Only on the Web": Ernest Green, one of the nine students integrated into Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, talks to Hari Sreenivasan about how far we have, or have not, come. (CBSNews.com)

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[1u1ube11e]

One of the nine wrote an incredible book called Warriors Don't Cry. It is an amazing book, I recommend it highly.

[jbatluvr96]

omg ernie green and the other 8 mean so much to me i watched the movie in school i wanted to cry so many times!!!

[WALTKRIEG]

@mtrought Racism is not a mental illness, but it is an educational defect. Racists are brain washed since their childhood by their families, by social contexts.

Hapily, there were and are brave and sensitive people who fight to break iniquities around the world and free education is one of the ways to gathered people of good will.

[Superbook4Eva]

@AlabamaConfederacy Of course, because ONLY African-Americans steal and commit crimes, right? You are disgusting.

[Superbook4Eva]

@1u1ube11e Melba Patillo Beals is one of my personal heroes. Her book IS amazing.

[junit4522]

@AlabamaConfederacy It really is sad that you are THAT close-minded and can make such a huge generalization on a race. Its people like you that, thankfully, are fading in our country. Also, I am 100% black but i'm not offended by you in the slightest considering how truly ignorant your comment was. Its a shame....

[Brownsugar956]

@AlabamaConfederacy Because of your comment I'm embarrassed to say I'm from Alabama which is supposed to be "Sweet Home."

[AlabamaConfederacy]

When your children come home with black eyes, bruises, cuts, and hungry because some negro buck took their lunch money you can thank the liberal yankees for that. Because they thought they would be intergrated with people who wanted to learn instead they got tyrone and ray ray who are career criminals into their classrooms.

[Uniqueindividual91]

I'm so glad that Katie didn't say Negro!

[kristinwroblewski1]

@1u1ube11e 

I am developing a unit with the book and To Kill A Mockingbird. The whole unit is about how civil disobedience became civil rights. The book is outstanding.

[mtrought]

For me it those white who supported the cause of integration they were the ones who were important in making it happen. Teachers who marked papers unbiased. There are some white heroes in theretoo, I say that as a black man it gives me hope. Racism is a mental disease

[dannybOMFG]

its called the ernest green story ive seen it like a million times cause i go there -.-