Standing in the gymnasium of Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas, a school official talks about operating under a "Pupil Assignment Law" under which school officials assign students so that there are some black among mostly white students and some white among mostly black students in Arkansas schools (during period of civil rights focus and the "Little Rock Nine" in the United States). Integrated students, including whites and some African Americans, play basketball in background.
Man says he is an "integrationist'" concerned more about the "Immorality" of segregation than he is about its "Illegality". He criticizes the Court Orders during Civil Rights movement that require the school board to allow only a token number of African American students into previously all white schools. He criticizes Southern politics. High school students leaving Little Rock Central High School at end of day. Many board school buses.
Minnijean Brown, African American former student of the Little Rock High school "Little Rock Nine" (during Civil Rights integration) giving interview to a reporter. She described how she was expelled from the school six months after she enrolled because she used the words "white trash" when responding to certain white students.
Shows Thelma Mothershed (ex-student member of the Little Rock Nine) preparing tea at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. She speaks when asked by the interviewer about her school days in Little Rock Central High school during integration in the civil rights movement.
Interview with Ernest Green (one of the Little Rock Nine) who attended Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas during its integration in the civil rights movement. Interviewer questions Daisy Bates, adviser to the Little Rock Nine, and holds her book titled 'The Long Shadow of Little Rock'. She shows a rock that came through her window during the integration crisi period, and speaks about the rights of African Americans.
Shows woman driving a car and a man sitting beside her. Views of residential areas in little Rock, Arkansas as seen from inside the moving car. Vehicular traffic on flyovers and on a river bridge. Industrial areas of the cities. Smoke arises from chimneys.