Central High School Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas- It's a different time now. Isn't it?

Central High School Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas
(across from the school which is still in use)

While visiting the Museum, tears came into her eyes when she thought about those 9 teenagers who were threatened, spit on, and hated. She wondered if she would have had the courage and faith to do what they did, or to allow her children to. It was a different world in 1957.

Or, was it?

On the walls of the museum, she saw Governor Orval Faubus argue about state’s rights. His call for the white people of Arkansas to come to Little Rock to defend Central High School was not, absolutely not, about states rights. It was about fear turned into hatred. It was about racism.

The words of Faubus and his supporters covered the walls of the museum.

And, they sounded oh so familiar:

They were calling it judicial activism and states’ rights back then, too.

Glenn Beck is using the same arguments that Governor Faubus did.

In 1958, a poll by Time Magazine named Faubus one of the top ten most trusted people in the world, right behind the Pope. The good news is that nobody trusts the Pope or Governor Faubus any more.

And the day will come, yes it will, when Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and Glen Beck are relegated to the status of Orval Faubus: a sore and hateful place in American history
http://juanitajean.com/

One can only hope....*sigh*

I thought Little Rock Central was a functioning high school??

The museum is located diagonally across from the school.

with so many schools closing I was honestly not sure

on the sign ...

always read the fine print ...

part of his "lead" that Trent Lott wanted the country to follow ...