{"id":10706,"date":"2012-04-22T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=10706"},"modified":"2012-04-22T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:46:12","slug":"the-youngest-member-of-the-little-rock-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=10706","title":{"rendered":"The Youngest Member of the Little Rock Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10708\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Little_Rock_Nine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10708\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10708\" title=\"Little_Rock_Nine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Little_Rock_Nine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Little_Rock_Nine.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Little_Rock_Nine-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Little Rock Nine Monument (photo by cliff1066\u2122)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1957, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlerock9.com\/CarlottaWalls.aspx\">Carlotta Walls LaNier<\/a> walked into Central High School as the youngest member of what is now known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Rock_Nine\">Little Rock Nine<\/a>. This act of defiance became one of the most important events of the Civil Rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. LaNier went on to be the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School. She received the NAACP&#8217;s Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal as a member of the Little Rock Nine.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, April 24<sup>th<\/sup> at 6:30 in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;tab=wl\">Casey Middle School Auditorium<\/a>, Ms. LaNier will be speaking about her experiences and signing her new memoir <em>A Mighty Long Way<\/em>. Tickets are $5.00, but no one will be turned away for the inability to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957, Carlotta Walls LaNier walked into Central High School as the youngest member of what is now known as the Little Rock Nine. This act of defiance became one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":10708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-10706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-to-action","tag-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}