Photo surfaces of a young Cowboys owner Jerry Jones trying to stop his black classmates from desegregating Little Rock High School
An old photo has resurfaced and it has the Dallas Cowboys in the spotlight. That photo was from 1957 and took place at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The photo shows a young Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, trying to stop his black classmates from desegregating Central High School.
You can see the photo below from Josh Clark Davis.
Six Black students were denied entry to North Little Rock High School by segregationists in 1957, and who was there to stop them? None other than Jerry Jones himself.
The event occurred just a few weeks before the Little Rock Nine integrated Little Rock Central High School less than five miles away in what turned out to be one of the biggest moments of the civil rights movement, according to Fox News.
On Sept. 9, 1957, Richard Lindsey, Gerald Persons, Harold Smith, Eugene Hall, Frank Henderson, and William Henderson attempted to enter the school despite being shoved and having dozens of white students blocking their entry.
This is wild, I wonder how this is going to turn out?
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