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=Little Rock Nine=


 * Ernest Green - first black student to graduate from Central High School, graduated Michigan State University, served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs under Jimmy Carter, currently works as vice president of Lehman Brothers in Washington DC
 * Elizabeth Eckford - still lives in Little Rock, made a career in military with journalism, is now a social worker, has two sons
 * Jefferson Thomas - graduated in 1960 after the school was temporarily closed in protest, is now an accountant with the US Department of Defense in Anaheim, California
 * Terrence Roberts - ended up moving to Los Angeles before finishing high school, earned a doctorate degree and teaches at University of California and Antioc College, is also a clinical psychologist
 * Carlotta Walls Lanier - graduated from Central, graduated from Michigan State University and is now in real estate in Englewood, Colorado
 * Minnijean Brown Trickey - expelled in 1958 due to incidents involving her retaliation to antagonism from white students, moved to Canada with husband during Vietnam War, is now a writer and social worker in Ontario, is having a documentary filmed about her life
 * Gloria Ray Karlmark - graduated from Illinois Technical College, moved to Stockholm, Sweden to get post graduate degree, became a computer science writer and published magazines in 39 different countries, now retired and splits her time between Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Stockholm
 * Thelma Watershed-Mair - graduated from college and taught in schools, now lives in Belleville, Illinois, volunteering for a program for abused women
 * Melba Pattillo Beals - lives in San Francisco, was an author and former journalist for People Magazine and NBC

http://www.centralhigh57.org/The_Little_Rock_Nine.html