A Member Of The Little Rock 9 Knows Why They’re Smearing Parkland Students — They Did It To Her, Too

Minnijean Brown Trickey wanted to make one thing clear.

She and the eight other members of the Little Rock Nine weren’t just accused of having been paid to integrate Central High School back in 1957. It was deeper, more insidious than that. They were called communists. They were accused of being secret Russians who had been trained to disrupt the South’s preferred way of life.

“It’s disappointing. You just feel accused and ashamed,” she told me, letting out a deep-throated sigh. “Shame is a big deal in this ― making people feel ashamed and making them feel that they’re doing the wrong thing when they speak out or participate in activism.

“This is the United States. We don’t like desegregation. We like segregation. We like not to affirm young people’s sense of determination.”


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