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Nine from Little Rock
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Wikipedia article
'Nine from Little Rock' is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957. The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency. The film won Guggenheim his first Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965, for Documentary Short Subject. He was also nominated in the same category the same year for 'Children Without'. The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.
Cast
* Jefferson Thomas as Himself – Narrator (also archive footage)
* Ernest Green as Himself (also archive footage)
* Thelma Mothershed as Herself (also archive footage)
See also
* Civil rights movement in popular culture
References
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