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1960 Little Rock Nine bombing... Central High School...
1960 Little Rock Nine bombing... Central High School...
Item # 720875
February 10, 1960
LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Mass. Feb. 10, 1960
* Youngest of the Little Rock Nine
* Central High School segregation
* Carlotta Walls' family home bombing
* Negroes - students attending school
The front page has a two column heading: "Bomb Shatters Home of Negroes" with lead-in: "Little Rock Again" (see images)
Complete with all 24 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
AI notes: On February 9, 1960, just weeks before her high school graduation, Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, experienced a violent act of racial intimidation when two sticks of dynamite exploded at her family’s home in Little Rock, Arkansas, destroying windows and dislodging bricks; the blast was so powerful it was heard from two miles away, though fortunately no one was injured. In the aftermath, her father was arrested and beaten by police to try to force a confession, and two young Black family friends, Herbert Monts and Maceo Binns Jr., were also arrested and wrongfully convicted, receiving five-year prison sentences. Despite this trauma, Carlotta returned to school the following day, resolute in her commitment to education and desegregation, and later became the first Black female to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in 1960. The bombing reflected the broader climate of resistance to desegregation in the South and highlighted the extraordinary courage and resilience of the Little Rock Nine in confronting systemic racism and personal danger.
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