13 Facts About Minnijean Brown-Trickey

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was born on September 11,1941 and is an American political figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey began her high school career in 1956 at Horace Mann, an all-black school located in Little Rock, AR.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey later transferred to Little Rock Central High School in 1957 following the Brown v Board of Education decision.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was expelled from Central and finished her high school education in New York at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan.

In September 1957, with the help of Daisy Bates, a prominent civil rights activist in Central Arkansas, Minnijean Brown-Trickey Brown set out to integrate Little Rock Central High School alongside eight other African American students.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey's suspension was the result of an incident which took place on December 17,1957.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey responded by calling the girls "white trash" and was immediately expelled.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey lived in Canada for a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s, where she studied social work at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, and later completing a Master of Social Work degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey moved back to America and worked for the Clinton Administration in 1999 through 2001 as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Diversity at the Department of the Interior.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey became a public speaker, and has spoken in 49 states as well as several countries including Canada, England, and South Africa.

Under the Clinton administration, Minnijean Brown-Trickey received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999 alongside the other members of the Little Rock Nine.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey has been depicted in two made-for-television movies about the Little Rock Nine.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was portrayed by Regina Taylor in the 1981 CBS movie Crisis at Central High, and by Monica Calhoun in the 1993 Disney Channel movie The Ernest Green Story.