I'm a bit ashamed to admit, I just learned about Hoxie, AR..last night

[SoCalDem]

There was a documentary on PBS about how the Hoxie Board of education took a stand and integrated their schools immediately. The jist of the documentary was that it was a HUGE success, and it wasn;t until the outsiders came in and created an INSURGENCY (now where have we heard that word?) that everything fell apart.

They stood strong and never wavered ...even after death threats and all but two of them being voted off. By the time that most were voted out, the agitators had moved on to the Civil Rights sites we all read about, but Hoxie was first, and they did it best.,..

If this documentary comes your way, please watch it..It was very uplifting.

http://www.unctv.org/education/tvforlearning/socialstudies/bschedule1.html

Hoxie: The First Stand

Monday, December 19, at 10 PM
In 1955, the school board of a small Arkansas town voluntarily integrated its schools, setting off the first confrontation with a growing southern movement to resist the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Despite threats from outside agitators, they refused to rescind their decision. Obscured by history's more widely known civil rights benchmark, Central High and the Little Rock Nine, the story of Hoxie is first and foremost a story about regular folks in extraordinary circumstances. Julian Bond narrates.

more about the school board @

http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/morris/HOXIE.HTM

The Life Magazine article that started the insurrection

[MemphisTiger]

1. I didn't know about this, but I've been through Hoxie, AR

it's a strange town

[Tummler]

2. Thanks -- I'll be on the lookout for that show

:kick:

[melody]

3. Arkansas is an exceptional state for the region

It has a lot of unusual aspects.