Carlotta Walls LaNier's Biography - The HistoryMakers.
Carlotta Walls LaNier was born on December 18, 1942, to Juanita Walls and the late Cartelyou Walls. She is the oldest of three daughters. LaNier was inspired by Rosa Parks and wanted the best education possible. This led her decision to be part of the Arkansas Nine.
Carlotta Walls-Lanier Interview. Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. Carlotta Walls-Lanier, one of the Little Rock Nine.
In 1957, fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls was the youngest Little Rock Nine member to integrate Central High School. She and eight other black students faced angry mobs, racist elected officials, and federal intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine safely into the building.
Ernst Green was one of the nine African Americans that were carefully chosen to take part in the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (Little Rock). The Nine African American students that were picked for this brave action were called the Little Rock Nine. These students were a massive part in the Civil Rights Movement.
Carlotta Walls LaNier, The Little Rock Nine Carlotta Walls and other members of the Little Rock Nine arrive at Central High School in 1957. Carlotta Walls LaNier said she was inspired by Rosa Parks, often referred to as the mother of the civil rights movement, when she decided to enroll in Central High School as a sophomore.
This article, pictured above, was from a February issue of JET MAGAZINE 1960. The ultra orthodox white supremacists of Little Rock Arkansas in 1960 bombed the home of my Uncle, Cortelyou Walls, a Black successful building contractor, who had the courage to allow his daughter and my first cousin Carlotta Walls to integrate Little Rock High School back in 1957.
The 150-page book contains verse, photographs, drawings, essays and documents from when Little Rock's resistance to desegregation put the city in the spotlight.