i was politicized by this issue and educated by the great editor of the old arkansas gazette. my question is, we whites are more sensitive now than we were 50 years ago. assuming that is true, maybe it is not. if it is, what is the cause? to a certain extent the laws in the country. i don't think the churches have helped much but maybe they have. >> it depends on the extent to which the we extend. to goes beyond your personal circle i doubt that it would apply. to the extent that it does, what made it happen was your own personal choice and conviction to step beyond the ordinary, not to follow the crowd, not to get into the peer pressure, to be just like those folks that we all look at and think where did they come from? very good. >> i would like to turn that around to you. in 1958, your daughter couldn't even go to school. why would you do that? were you in high-school? >> i was starting junior high. >> you moved to fayetteville. okay. anybody who moved here, i had to question that. that was the only reason i brought that up. >> question in the back. >> thank you. as we note

according to the local daily arkansas gazette i was the first integrating student in the country to have her home. few people my age will have more than one good friend from high school. i am grateful to have at least eight. bernie, mill book, minnijean, elizabeth, gloria, terry, jefferson and feldman. and the public mind we are one, the "little rock nine" that we are in essence nine distinct personalities with nine different stories. it is much a story about the dedication of family perseverance and sacrifice as it is about the journey in the history. it is-- it is a salute to my parents in the background and swallowed a great risk and suffering. they were the ones who had ingrained in me the quiet confidence that jim crow dams. i was not a second class citizen. it was that confidence that told me i'd deserve the quality education and the supreme court said i was too. the confidence that steadied my feet to defy the racist school every single day. my parents bequeath to me the confidence of their fathers, both hard-working entrepreneurs in control of their own economic lives. my family

and i was politicized by the city, and educated by the great editor of the old arkansas gazette.but my question is, i think we whites are much more sensitive now than we were 50 years ago. and assuming that's right, maybe it's not but maybe it's right. if it is right, what has come to iceboat a certain extent of the laws of the country, i don't think churches have helped much, but maybe they have. would you all have -- it depends upon which the extent that we extent that it goes too far on your personal i got it would apply. but to the extent it does, i think what made it happened was your own personal choice and conviction to step beyond the ordinary. not to follow the crowd, not to get into the peer pressure to be just like those folks that we all look at, think where did they come from. yeah. so very good. >> i would like to turn that around to you. you moved here in 1968. your daughter couldn't even go to school. so i mean, why would you do that? i mean, were you in elementary -- high school? >> i moved to fayetteville and i was darting junior high school right in the spirit