s enraged by the Supreme Court decision and took it upon himself to prevent integration. Faubus passed many segregation bills through the Legislative Branch of Arkansas, one which granted him the power to shut down any public school in Arkansas. He continued to temporarily shut down the four public high schools in Little Rock, stating "If Daisy Bates [an NAACP leader] would find an honest job and go to work, and if the U.S. Supreme Court would keep its cotton-picking hands off the Little Rock School Board's affairs, we could open the Little Rock [public] schools!" The schools remained closed for the entire year.Faubus was once again denied by the politicians of Washington D.C. In the summer of 1959, the Supreme Court ruled that what Faubus had done was unconstitutional. In order to prevent Faubus from taking any further action to keep the schools closed, the school board opened school early, August 12, 1959. Two students or the original nine remained in Central High, while three others of the original nine attended another nearby public high school. Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls both graduated from Central High that spring.The crisis in Little Rock had a profound impact on a divided nation and the rest of the world. It provided indelible proof of the lengths to which some Southerners would go to prevent integration. Governor Faubus was a fine example of the unjustifiable behavior that segregationists felt was necessary. Faubus had been seeking re-election for his 3rd term of Arkansas governor and in order to persuade voters he felt that he should join the segregation movement. Rather than thinking as a human with his heart, Faubus elected to act as a politician and put an infamous label on his name. Nonetheless, the paramount heart of the nine black students overcame all obstacles. These nine teenagers, Jean Brown Trickey, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mother...
