Ernest Green

Janice prepares us to

“anchor ourselves for a moment

for someone who helped get us here”

Ernest Green

living up to

holding onto

humbling and inspiring

unbelievable experiences

members of an

exclusive club

opened and closed on

sept 5, 1957

what’s changed

and what hasn’t changed enough!

central to the issues that has most

plagued

America

the issue of

Race

hundreds of slaves

plantation owned founding fathers

governors stopping education

for field hands

let me tell you

as a child

turned away

let me tell you

stories of my grandfather

guns turned on him for voting

a jeep in front

a jeep behind

we were going to school and

that’s when I realized the full

extent of what was wrong

they wanted us to fail

our families and communities were not going to let that happen

WE 9 students

were not going to let that happen

we had math to do, papers to write

Sputnik in Russia

just another matter in the paper

Dr. John Hannah

picketer and benefactor

all wrapped in one soul

50 years ago

50 years later

9 scared kids

willing to follow the path

don’t pat us on the path for what we did

but for what we must do now

THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME

YOU ARE THE RIGHT PEOPLE