Member Of ‘Little Rock Nine’ Speaks At BC

Posted: September 13, 2012

By DOUG MANNERS

Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the “Little Rock Nine,” speaks at Bridgewater College on Wednesday. (Photos by Stephen Mitchell / DN-R)
Minnijean Brown Trickey was one of nine black students to break the color barrier at the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., a key moment in the civil rights movement.

BRIDGEWATER — Minnijean Brown Trickey walked the halls of Central High School like she belonged there.

 

The law was on her side. Nearly all the 1,800 students at the seven-story school...



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