Gloria: In the Shadow of Racism

Gloria Ray was fourteen years old when she was stopped by armed white soldiers from entering Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The year was 1957, and Gloria Ray, along with eight other Black teenagers known as The Little Rock Nine, were the first to act on the Supreme Court’s ruling that segregation of Black and white children in American schools was unconstitutional. Arkansas’s resistance was so strong and violent that armed elite troops had to escort the nine Black students to school daily.
The event became a global headline and a pawn in the Cold War, as well as a shocking exposure of racism in America. The nine youths of The Little Rock Nine are now icons in the history of the American civil rights movement.

Gloria moved to Sweden in 1969. Hear her tell her story in person.