Six decades after Minnijean Brown became one of the Little Rock Nine, one of the first nine black students to desegregate a high school in Little Rock, Ark., she has a new mission: showing the world just how scared she was as it happened.
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Minnijean Brown-Trickey on being ‘courageous’
Brown-Trickey was one of the first students to desegregate Central High School in 1957. She talks with Post columnist Jonathan Capehart about how deciding to go to the Arkansas high school was met with threats of lynching and other violence.
Brown-Trickey also connects the past to the present and how current civil rights issues echo those of the past.
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