Elizabeth and then screamed at the the child alone! Why are you tormenting mob, ‘leave [upsetting] her? Six months from now you will hang your heads in shame.’… of it is that during all this time the national guardsmen made no effort to …the irony protect Elizabeth or help me. Instead they threatened to have me arrested for inciting [provoking] a riot. [From: D.Bates, The Long Shadow of Liittle Rock: Memoir (David Company, Inc, 1962) pp.69-71] SOURCE 3E This extract is taken from an oral interview with Craig Rains. He a white student at Central High School, Little Rock, a senior and an officer in the student council in 1957. I remember exactly when I first realized that the school was going to be integrated, don’t but I do remember that we were being told to do something that we might or might not want to my first thougt was not that we were going to have to go to school with do…so blacks, that but that we were being told by the federal government to do didn’t bother me, something and we have any say-so in that. didn’t One of my jobs as an officer in the student council was to raise the flags outside. That gave me an opportunity to see what was going on outside the school, to see the was an ugly attitude. Especially when Elizabeth Eckford came to try to get into anger…it school. And the crowd began to heckle her, and cheer and shout, as she walked along. I was just I that people would actually be this way to other dumbfounded…well can’t belive people. I began to change from someone who was a moderate who, if I had my way, would have said, because the to To ‘don’t let’s integrate, it’s state’s right decide.’ someone who felt a real sense of compassion for these students. I also developed a real dislike for the people who were out there that were causing problems. [From: H. Hampton and S.Fayer, Voices of Freedom, An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement] Name of School: Term 1 - 2014 Standardised Test 1 Grade 12: History
Elizabeth and then screamed at the mob, ‘leave the child alone! Why are you tormenting [upsetting] her? Six months from now you will hang your heads in shame.’… …the irony of it is that during all this time the national guardsmen made no effort to protect Elizabeth or help me. Instead they threatened to have me arrested for inciting [provoking] a riot. [From: D.Bates, The Long Shadow of Liittle Rock: Memoir (David Company, Inc, 1962) pp.69-71] SOURCE 3E This extract is taken from an oral interview with Craig Rains. He a white student at Central High School, Little Rock, a senior and an officer in the student council in 1957. I don’t remember exactly when I first realized that the school was going to be integrated, but I do remember that we were being told to do something that we might or might not want to do…so my first thougt was not that we were going to have to go to school with blacks, that didn’t bother me, but that we were being told by the federal government to do something and we didn’t have any say-so in that. One of my jobs as an officer in the student council was to raise the flags outside. That gave me an opportunity to see what was going on outside the school, to see the anger…it was an ugly attitude. Especially when Elizabeth Eckford came to try to get into school. And the crowd began to heckle her, and cheer and shout, as she walked along. I was just dumbfounded…well I can’t belive that people would actually be this way to other people. I began to change from someone who was a moderate who, if I had my way, would have said, ‘don’t let’s integrate, because it’s the state’s right to decide.’ To someone who felt a real sense of compassion for these students. I also developed a real dislike for the people who were out there that were causing problems. [From: H. Hampton and S.Fayer, Voices of Freedom, An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement] Name of School: Term 1 - 2014 Standardised Test 1 Grade 12: History
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