Answer: D "The following year, Little Rock School District officials under the command of Faubus closed the schools to prevent integration. But in 1959, the schools were open again. Both black and white children were in attendance." (Paragraph 7)
Explanation:
This question is based on a reading titled ''Showdown in Little Rock'' which talks about 9 Black American school children who were to attend a previously segregated high school after the Supreme Court had declared segregation in school, unconstitutional.
Part A is a question about the central idea of the text and that answer is, ''the Little Rock Nine helped break racial barriers in American education despite great opposition.''
The text in part B that supports it in option D where the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus ordered schools to close in order to prevent integration which he was not in support of. In defiance, the schools opened the year after and allowed both black and white children which signalled that racial barriers were being broken in the American education system regardless of the opposition faced.
