1957: The Civil Rights Movement

Benjamin Fine '32

Benjamin Fine was in Arkansas to report for the New York Times on the integration of the Little Rock Nine to all-white Central High School. Facing howling mobs of segregationists on a daily basis, Fine was battered black and blue, but it didn’t stop him from getting the story. 

Read "Little Rock Told to Integrate Now Despite Militia”

The New York Times — Sept. 4, 1957